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Caravaggio - Portrait of Pope Urban VIII. Maffeo Barberini 1598

Portrait of Pope Urban VIII. Maffeo Barberini 1598
121x95cm oil/canvas
Palazzo Corsini, Florence
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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.