World Scene: Italy

'Lost' painting to be auctioned

A lost painting by Italian master Sebastiano Ricci has turned up in Texas after a 300-year journey that has seen it change hands from a European nobleman playboy to a Missouri fur trader and finally to generations of an American family.

Discovered in a Dallas warehouse after the family asked an art expert to take a look at it, Ricci's The Vision of St. Bruno will be offered by Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries on Nov 20. Heritage officials say the painting has been conservatively estimated to fetch at least $600,000.