Sgarbi challenges purchase of Antiveduto Gramatica Concert: could not exceed 100 thousand euros

Undersecretary for Culture Vittorio Sgarbi has objected to thepurchase of the fragment titled Concerto a due figure by Antiveduto Gramatica, which together with the Theorbo Player by the same artist recomposes the figurative layout of the painting La Musica. The fragment was recently acquired by the Ministry of Culture-General Directorate of Museums for the Royal Museums of Turin, and was unveiled yesterday in Turin, officially entering the museum’s collections.

“Behind the backs of the current administration, unbeknownst to the minister and the undersecretary, who was informed by the Turin press,” reads Ansa, "the Royal Museums of Turin, a body that evidently considers itself independent of the Ministry of Culture, presented the modest, though defined as extraordinary, acquisition of a Concerto a due figure by Antiveduto Gramatica, allegedly purchased by the Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Museums, in September 2022, before the launch of the current government, with the positive opinion of the Scientific Technical Committee.“ And Sgarbi continues, ”One does not understand the triumphalism of the heads of the Royal Museums of Turin for having recomposed, in a moreover questionable way, two fragments of an Allegory of Music remembered in the collection of Cardinal del Monte in Rome,“ at a price, that is, at 350 thousand euros, which, the undersecretary stresses, ”to all feedback, cannot exceed 100 thousand euros."

Sgarbi challenges purchase of Antiveduto Gramatica Concert: could not exceed 100 thousand euros

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