Portrait of Maffeo Barberini explained

Portrait of Maffeo Barberini
Other Language 1:Italian
Other Title 1:Ritratto di Maffeo Barberini
Artist:Caravaggio
Year:c. 1598
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:124
Width Metric:90
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Private collection

Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is in a private collection in Los Angeles.

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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