The politician says he found the work while restoring a villa bought ... Report' on the Italian TV broadcaster Rai. The owner of the castle who reported the painting stolen told journalists ...

Upon investigation, art experts confirmed that the room ... This was reported by Euronews. The villa, now owned by the Italian state, was originally purchased by the Farnese family in 1580.

However, Villa Aurora got its name from another of the property's artworks, a fresco painted by the Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino. The painting depicts the ...

The villa's steward at the time ... marble to make Michelangelo look like a beast would have shaken up the Italian art scene. "It's either Michelangelo doing a self-portrait, or it's one of ...