Caravaggio
Jean Paul Gaultier sued by Uffizi in Botticelli bottoms row
The Uffizi museum in Florence said on Oct. 10 it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorized use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.
Painted by Sandro Botticelli in the mid-1480s, it shows the nude goddess Venus standing on a giant scallop shell, covering her loins with her long blonde hair.
Rome villa with Caravaggio fails to sell
A villa in Rome containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio went on a court-ordered auction block on Jan. 18, thanks to an inheritance dispute pitting the heirs of one of Rome's aristocratic families against their stepmother, a Texas-born princess.
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