Rome villa with Caravaggio’s only ceiling fresco fails to sell again

Sprawling Villa Aurora - at centre of legal battle - attracts no bidders for second time at cut-price 377m

For the second time in three months a historic Rome villa that contains the only ceiling fresco ever painted by the Renaissance master and famed scoundrel Caravaggio has failed to attract a bidder.

More than four centuries after his death at the age of 38, the man known during his lifetime for his fistfights, arrests and lawsuits as much as for producing many of history's best-known paintings, is still causing trouble.