Hammer prices from a Milan sale, two results that were still estimates last week, a Turin fair whose dates have now passed, and a restitution and a reopening in Rome, 26 October–2 November 2026. Figures are those published by the source. Where a house marks a lot sold but shows the figure only after login, no price is stated here. Every sale named here has already been held.
A Vasari in Milan, premium included
Il Ponte’s auction 801, furniture and old-master paintings, was held in Milan on 28, 29 and 30 October 2026, at Via Pontaccio 12. Bidding was by written, telephone and online offers. The sale page states the buyer’s premium as 35 per cent including VAT up to €2,000, and 28 per cent including VAT above €2,001. Lot pages label a result “Venduto (diritti inclusi)”, so the prices below include that premium.
Lot 489 was in the session of 28 October at 15:00. It is catalogued as Giorgio Vasari, Trasporto di Cristo al sepolcro, about 1540–1545, oil on panel, 159 × 185 cm, with restorations noted, from a private collection in Lombardy. The page thanks Carlo Falciani for confirming the attribution after examining the painting. The estimate was €200,000–250,000. It sold for €588,800 including the premium. The same page records that on 19 October 2026, at 11:05, the Soprintendenza for the metropolitan city of Milan notified the house that it had opened the procedure to declare the lot of particularly important artistic and historical interest. Il Sole 24 Ore, on 29 October, reported that four telephone bidders contested it. A completed declaration is what blocks a definitive export: the steps are set out in the buying and shipping guide.
Other Italian lots in that same session, all with the premium included, were these. Lot 468, Antonio Joli, Veduta del Campo Vaccino, oil on canvas, 117 × 154 cm, estimate €90,000–100,000, sold for €108,800. The catalogue text identifies the view as part of the Roman Forum, with the columns of the Temple of Saturn and the three columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux among what can be recognised. Lot 488, Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario, Ritratto di un conte Secco Suardo, oil on canvas, 90.2 × 72 cm, from the Giovanni Malvezzi collection in Rome, estimate €40,000–60,000, sold for €70,400. In the same report, Il Sole 24 Ore dates that portrait to about 1720. Lot 467, catalogued as attributed to Bicci di Lorenzo, is a Madonna and Child with saints, tempera and gold on panel, maximum dimensions 119 × 64.5 cm, estimate €9,000–10,000, sold for €51,200. Lot 423, workshop of Andrea Della Robbia, is a monochrome glazed terracotta bust of St Francis, with traces of pigment, early sixteenth century, 46 × 67 × 18 cm, defects and restorations noted. The page gives a provenance at Antichità Paolo Romano, in the fourth national antiques fair at Palazzo Reale, Milan, in October 1974. Estimate €6,000–8,000; sold for €24,320. Terracotta sculpture of this kind is the subject of the sculpture pages.
Lot 478, also in the 28 October session, is a wall table of carved and gilded wood, the top veneered in Sicilian jasper, the apron centred on a face in a laurel wreath among scrolls, the legs carved with leafy scrolls and joined by stretchers, lion-paw feet. The page places it in Rome, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, 178 × 89 × 90 cm, and notes defects and restorations to the top. Estimate €18,000–20,000; sold for €38,400 including the premium. Case furniture of this kind is the subject of the furniture guide. The sale room is one of the stops a Milan visit can take in, beside the dealer streets in the Italy destinations guide.
The Oxford Canaletto, with a hammer price
Mallams’ Picture Sale in Oxford, which last week had not been held, took place on Wednesday 21 October 2026. The Oxford Mail reports that the previously unrecorded drawing by Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, sold for a hammer of £135,000. Rupert Fogden, described there as director and head of sale, said the contest at the end was between a telephone bidder and an online bidder, and that the hammer fell to the telephone. The sheet is titled A Capriccio of a ruined Renaissance arcade and pavilion by a waterway crossed by a wooden footbridge, a round tower beyond. The same report gives the inscription on the reverse as “a Present from Sig Canal d Canaletti”. BBC News, on 21 October, reported the price as £135,000 against an expectation of £40,000–60,000, and described the medium as pen, brown ink and a light grey wash. Where Venice sits in a collector’s visit is in the Italy destinations guide.
The Righetti candelabra, now with a price
Dorotheum’s page for lot 1008, workshop of Francesco Righetti, now publishes a realized price. The auction was 20 October 2026 at 14:00 at Palais Dorotheum in Vienna. The lot is a pair of three-light candelabra in the Egyptian revival taste: gilt bronze, porphyry bases on marble plinths, each with a sculpted Egyptian figure in a nemes headdress, the bases supported by four sphinxes, height 80 cm, base 21 × 21 cm, catalogued as Rome, early nineteenth century. The estimate was €40,000–60,000. The realized price is €46,800, and the page states that this purchase price includes the buyer’s premium and VAT. Lighting of this sort is gathered under lighting.
Florence and Genoa: sold, the figure not public
Pandolfini’s page for the pair of Lombard commodes, lot 230 in auction 1459, furniture and works of art, on 21 October 2026, now labels the lot “Aggiudicazione”. The estimate is still €15,000–25,000. The description on the page is a pair of the second half of the eighteenth century, veneered in burr wood, with a shaped top, front and sides, three drawers, and a central medallion framing a trophy. It cites Enrico Colle, Museo d’Arti Applicate. Mobili e intagli lignei, Milan 1996, pp. 74–77, no. 74. The page tells a visitor to log in to see the sale figure, so no price is published here. The page for the four large Piedmontese wall lights, catalogued as probably by Francesco Ladatte, carries the same “Aggiudicazione” label. The estimate is still €12,000–18,000, and the figure is likewise behind a login. Case furniture of the commode type is the subject of the furniture guide.
Cambi’s page for the neoclassical tureen in auction 1250, the Genoa charitable-bequest sale, now labels it “Venduto”. The page dates the session to Wednesday 21 October 2026 in Genoa, first session at 9:30 for lots 1–297. The tureen is Milan artistic silver, the fasces mark in use from 1935 to 1945, silversmith Achille Proserpio, cast and shaped silver, 1,455 g, 29 × 20.5 × 23 cm, a plain body, double handles, a square base on four swan feet, and a cover with a finial. The estimate is still €900–1,100. The sale figure is shown only after login. The page for the pair of five-light candelabra by Gianni Prosperini, Milan silver with the same fasces marks, is also labelled “Venduto”, against an estimate of €4,200–4,800, again with the figure behind a login. Those Milan marks are the subject of the silver hallmarks guide.
APART in Turin, dates now past
The tenth APART fair was listed for Wednesday 28 October to Sunday 1 November 2026 at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti, viale Diego Balsamo Crivelli 11, Turin. Those dates have passed. Confcommercio Ascom Torino, on 27 October, described it as organised by the Associazione Piemontese Antiquari with Ascom and FIMA, the Italian federation of art dealers, with support from the chamber of commerce and the patronage of the city and the region. The notice counts 35 galleries from across Italy, and names among the artists Francesco Solimena as well as Edgar Degas, Giorgio Morandi, Émile Gallé, Katsushika Hokusai, Lorenzo Delleani and Felice Casorati. It singles out a fifteenth-century fresco cycle from Spoleto, including a young woman enthroned with a unicorn, as rare for a selling fair. It says the FIMA scientific committee examines each work before the opening, and calls APART the only fair in Piedmont, and one of the few in Italy, to offer that check. The fair’s own hours and tickets page gives Wednesday 28 October as 13:00–22:00, Thursday 29 to Saturday 31 October as 10:30–20:30, and Sunday 1 November as 10:30–19:30. Full price is €10, the museum-card price €5, and entry is free for FIMA members.
Fifty-four objects assigned to Cerveteri
On 28 October 2026 the Carabinieri provincial command in Rome published a communiqué from Cerveteri. The headline counts 57 archaeological objects. The text counts 54, of notable historical and documentary interest, formally returned to the State and definitively assigned to the Ministry of Culture. The Campo di Mare station had seized them at Marina di Cerveteri in an inquiry coordinated by the prosecutor in Civitavecchia. At the end of the proceedings, the Directorate-General for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape assigned them to the superintendency for the province of Viterbo and southern Etruria. The text says the superintendency’s archaeologists date the group from the seventh century BC to the full Roman imperial period.
The pieces named as standing out are two rare Etruscan column-kraters in red figure, early decades of the third century BC, placed with the Volterra group, painted with warriors and horse heads; a Caeretan sub-geometric plate of the second half of the seventh century BC, with bands and a file of herons; a large Apulian red-figure phiale with a courtship scene; lekythoi, balsamaria, black-glaze pottery, Attic and Roman lamps, and a rare exaleiptron for perfumes; a large Roman transport amphora of Iberian production, of the sort used for the sea trade in garum; and a group of votive terracottas of the kind found in Etruscan-Latial and Hellenistic votive deposits of the fourth and third centuries BC, including draped or dancing figurines, moulded votive heads, spindle whorls, loom weights, and anatomical ex-votos of eyes, feet and hands. The communiqué says the objects had also been subject to earlier amateur restoration with unsuitable materials. The superintendency is to keep and show them permanently in the museums of the Cerveteri area. Finds from the ground are not ordinary stock: the buying and shipping guide sets out why archaeological objects belong to the State.
Sant’Ivo open again on weekday mornings
The State Archives of Rome announced that the church of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza would be open to the public from Tuesday 27 October 2026, Monday to Friday, 9:30–13:30, at Corso del Rinascimento 40. A press conference was set for Monday 26 October at 11:00 in the Sala Alessandrina. Finestre sull’Arte, on 27 October, reported the reopening after a restoration overseen by the Special Superintendency of Rome and funded by the PNRR Caput Mundi programme. The account covers interior and exterior surfaces, including the small dome, where the so-called color dell’aire is set against gilded rays, and the altarpiece, described as Pietro da Cortona’s last work and finished by his pupils. It also covers repairs to the roof and to the rainwater drains. Access is free. Touring Club volunteers in the “Aperti per voi” scheme receive visitors. The church is one of the Baroque interiors a Rome visit can include, beside the dealer streets in the Italy destinations guide.
The Titian exhibition, now open
Last week Un Tiziano per Milano had not opened. The Museo Poldi Pezzoli now lists it from 22 October 2026 to 25 January 2027. The homepage describes a Titian canvas that has never been shown to the public, placed in the museum on long-term loan from a private collector, and a dossier exhibition on the painter’s relationship with Milan, in the 450th anniversary of his death. The museum is one of the stops a Milan visit can take in, in the Italy destinations guide.