“I’m not worried, I found the painting in a house purchased by my mother and I had it restored. Furthermore, like all painters of the 17th century, Manetti produced replicas of his works and that person may have had a late copy which is been stolen is a possible thing”. The undersecretary for culture Vittori Sgarbi, on the sidelines of a meeting in Genoa, returns to the painting
“The capture of Saint Peter” by Rutilio Manetti which, according to the Report program, is a work stolen in 2013 from a castle in Piedmont. “I’ll show you something new – adds Sgarbi, showing the journalists photos of two paintings by Manetti from his cell phone – this is a painting that is in a church in Siena while this other, identical one, is in a private collection. The only difference is
the light, as in my painting, and this shows that Manetti had the idea that two paintings could be invented with the same subject and different settings. If I have to argue about explaining that there are nine versions of Caravaggio’s Maddalena, dozens of versions of Mattia Preti, I say what is evident: that there are two paintings by the same author is a normal thing in 17th century painting”. (video report by Fabrizio Cerignale)
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