Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, c. 1598

Oil on canvas, 124 × 90 cm

Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Room II · Rise to Fame (c. 1598–1600)

Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, Caravaggio, c. 1598 — Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain

The young Florentine prelate Maffeo Barberini, a friend of Cardinal del Monte, who in 1623 would become Pope Urban VIII. Attributed to Caravaggio by Roberto Longhi in 1963 and long kept in a private collection, it was bought by the Italian State in 2026.