Medium Oil on canvas Location Private collection Genre Portrait Periods Baroque, Italian Baroque | Artist Caravaggio Media Oil paint Year 1598 | |
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Dimensions 124 cm × 90 cm (49 in × 35 in) Similar Caravaggio artwork, Baroque artwork, Portraits | ||
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
It is held in a private collection in Florence.
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.
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