After years of battling cultural-patrimony issues, the Getty has staged a diplomatic coup with its new Bernini survey by borrowing several sculptures from Italy that had never left the country before. One, a powerful circa 1658 bronze bust of Pope Urban VIII Barberini, left, came from the venerable Corsini family, of Florence. Duke Duccio Corsini, a winemaker who provided the Chianti for the Getty opening, admits that he had hardly given the sculpture a second glance before. “It was a wedding gift—not commissioned for the family—so it was basically gathering dust,” he says. Besides, he adds, “I collect contemporary.”

"Busted" originally appeared in the October 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's October 2008 Table of Contents.