Having remained unobtainable for several decades, the “Portrait of Maffeo Barberini” will be exhibited in Rome from November 22. With LéNA, discover the best of European journalism.
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Published on 11/14/2024 at 4:24 p.m.
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Lhe enigmatic painting by Caravaggio, one of which we lost track for more than half a century, has never been presented either in a museum or as part of an exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo Merisi. THE Portrait of Maffeo Barberinirepresented in ecclesiastical attire a few years before he became cardinal and then Pope, under the name of Urban VIII, seemed to have vanished into thin air. Today, however, it has resurfaced, and will soon appear before the public eye, amid the baroque wonders of the Roman palace which bears the same family name as the 17th century pontiff.e century.
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