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Saint Jerome (around 1605), one of three works by Caravaggio going on tour from the Galleria Borghese in Rome Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo – Galleria Borghese

Rome’s Galleria Borghese is launching a three-year partnership with the Italian luxury goods brand Fendi to create an international study centre dedicated to Caravaggio. The museum inside a 17th-century villa is one of 20 leading Italian institutions, including the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence and Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, that gained financial independence from…

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Countess claims art dealer shortchanged her: suit

A cash-strapped countess is suing a British art dealer, saying he shortchanged her by millions of dollars on the sale of a painting by Dutch marine master Willem van de Velde. Lesley Joan Viscountess Hambleden and her late husband William Herbert Smith — the Fourth Viscount Hambleden — asked former Sotheby’s specialist Timothy Sammons to…