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.