Word: sanseverino
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...patrons found their way into public galleries, until only a single work remained in private hands: the Pietà Rondanini, an unfinished sculpture of the dead Christ and Virgin Mary on which the master was working when he died in 1564. It was owned by Italy's wealthy Sanseverino family and kept in their villa near Rome. Then, three years ago, the word flashed through art circles that the Sanseverinos were inviting offers (TIME, March...
...foot of a curving staircase in the little modernistic Villa Sanseverino stands the last privately owned Michelangelo in the world, the Pieta Rondanini.* Every month, dozens of visitors go out to the outskirts of Rome by bus, ring the villa's bell, and ask to see the unfinished, life-sized statue of the dead Christ and Virgin Mary on which the 89-year-old Renaissance master was working when he died. The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors, even though one gaping art lover...
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