Above is the video of the talk, by the ADBL editor. And here’s the blurb:
Inside the “world’s most expensive home”: A Decade of Rutgers Research at the Villa Aurora in Rome. Presentation by T. Corey Brennan, Professor of Classics, Rutgers
A virtual presentation, open to the public: 20 January 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST.
The Villa Aurora in Rome—for precisely 400 years the home of the papal Boncompagni Ludovisi family—will go on auction this month with an asking price of $532 million dollars. Called by one leading art historian a “sort of seventeenth-century Sistine Chapel”, the Villa Aurora boasts famous mural art by more than a dozen major artists, including a unique 1597 ceiling painting by Caravaggio. In this richly illustrated talk, Professor Corey Brennan will discuss this landmark sale, his decade-long collaboration with the owners—†HSH Prince Nicolò and HSH Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi—and the discoveries inside the Villa made with over two dozen Rutgers undergraduate students.
RESEARCH PROJECT WEBSITES
https://villaludovisi.org [main; most articles are by Rutgers undergraduate students in its School of Arts and Sciences ]
https://twitter.com/villaludovisi [latest news]
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/archivio-boncompagni-ludovisi
[Archivio Boncompagni Ludovisi partner site with Google Arts & Culture]
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2VBi0SdFh3T8P-S8AnO3w [project YouTube channel]
SCHOLARLY ARTICLE ON SALE:
https://villaludovisi.org/2021/11/28/interview-with-raffaella-morselli-from-aboutart-online-important-news-on-guercino-at-villa-ludovisi-the-sale-of-the-villa-the-estimate-is-correct-now-italys-minister-of/ [Raffaella Morselli of University of Teramo]
NEW YORK POST ARTICLE ON VILLA AURORA SALE:
https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/italian-villa-with-worlds-only-caravaggio-mural-on-sale-for-547m/
FORBES article (and video) on auction of Villa Aurora:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/12/12/meet-the-texas-born-italian-princess-whos-selling-a-532-million-roman-villa-with-a-caravaggio-ceiling/?sh=a55cf986374a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdEYT-x9iX4
NPR ARTICLE ON VILLA AURORA SALE:
SELECT TELEVISION COVERAGE:
https://www.lci.fr/international/video-rome-cette-maison-pourrait-devenir-l-une-des-plus-cheres-au-monde-2207305.html#xtor=CS5-113 [France’s TF1]
Time:
Thursday, 20 January 2022
12:00-1:00pm EST
Registration:
Visit our registration page.
All registrants will receive a link to join our Zoom Webinar.
Please email events@sas.rutgers.edu with any questions.
Visit our new Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Website
Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi 
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