A publishing firm that specializes in high-dollar glossy coffee table books featuring the Vatican’s Renaissance art has been accused of brokering deals without permission from the Holy See.
The Daily Beast confirmed the allegation with Sarah Rose Speno, an attorney in New York who says she tried to license images of the Sistine Chapel and other Vatican masterpieces for a client who saw them in a book published by Scripta Maneant.
The news outlet then reached out to Monsignor Paolo Nicolini, the vice president of the Vatican Museums, who said he had sold Scripta Maneant rights to the images in the coffee table book—which sells for a whopping $22,000 a copy—back in 2015 for one-time non-world use. Scripta Maneant, however, claimed that they have every right to license images from the book, and, in fact, that they work directly with Nicolini on a case-by-case basis for future rights, which the prelate denied.
When reached for comment, Scripta Maneant issued a statement signed by the CEO Giorgio Armaroli denying that his company has the ability to grant rights for any of the Vatican art, despite having tried to charge Speno more than $80,000 for such rights. “Scripta Maneant has never declared and will never declare that it can transfer any image or any image license to anyone, neither for this type of activity nor for purely editorial activities,” Armaroli says in the statement.
Argentina Últimas Noticias, Argentina Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
Bilbo moves again: Segregationist's statue will leave Capitol for Two Museums' basementThe bronze statue of one of the state’s most notorious racists, former Gov. Theodore Bilbo, is being moved from its utility room in the Capitol to storage in the basement of the Two Mississippi Museums.
Leer más »
House GOP report says COVID-19 origins 'may have been tied' to Chinese bioweapons programA newly released report from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee says COVID-19's origins 'may have been' linked to a Chinese biological weapons program. COVID19
Leer más »
COVID origins 'may have been tied' to China's bioweapons program: GOP reportFIRST ON FOX: Lawmakers say there are 'indications' that COVID-19 could be linked to China's biological weapons research program and 'spilled over' to humans at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Leer más »
3 men tied to leader of Whitmer kidnap plot face sentencingThree men who forged an early alliance with the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor are facing potentially lengthy sentences for assisting him before the FBI disbanded the scheme in 2020
Leer más »
3 men tied to leader of Whitmer kidnap plot face sentencingThree men who forged an early alliance with the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor are facing potentially lengthy sentences for assisting him before the FBI disbanded the scheme in 2020.
Leer más »