Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. First cataloged in 1963 by Roberto Longhi, one of Italy’s foremost 20th-century art historians, the painting had been in a private collection for decades, largely inaccessible to scholars and had not been featured in any of the major Caravaggio exhibitions.[1] In November, 2024 the painting went on display at the Palazzo Barberini.
| Portrait of Maffeo Barberini | |
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| Italian: Ritratto di Maffeo Barberini | |
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| Artist | Caravaggio |
| Year | c. 1598 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 124 cm × 90 cm (49 in × 35 in) |
| Location | Private collection |
Barberini, 30 years old and from the eminent Florentine Barberini family, was a rapidly rising Church prelate, a friend of Caravaggio's patron Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, and himself a poet and patron of the arts. Barberini's support would continue into later years – in 1603 he commissioned a Sacrifice of Isaac from Caravaggio. In 1623 he became Pope as Urban VIII.
See also
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edit- Creighton Gilbert. Caravaggio and his two cardinals. Penn State Press, 1995. ISBN 0271013125
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Media related to Portrait of Maffeo Barberini by Caravaggio at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ "Caravaggio Painting, Unseen for Decades, Goes on Display". Wikipedia. Retrieved 29 November 2024.