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Italy Buys Rare Caravaggio Portrait for €30m
The Culture Ministry aims to preserve public heritage by acquiring one of about 60 known Caravaggio paintings, including only three portraits, for €30 million.
- On March 10, Italy's Culture Ministry bought a rare Caravaggio portrait for 30 million euros and transferred it into the Palazzo Barberini's permanent collection in Rome.
- Following last week's purchase of Antonello da Messina’s 'Ecce Homo', Italy's Culture Ministry said it aims to strengthen national cultural heritage and prevent artworks from private markets, Giuli said.
- Painted around 1598, the portrait depicts Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, clutching a letter with his left hand and making a right-hand gesture, authenticated in 1963 by Roberto Longhi and kept in a private Florence collection before its Palazzo Barberini exhibition in 2024.
- The ministry plans to buy more works in the coming months to make masterpieces available to scholars and enthusiasts, with Alessandro Giuli calling it one of "the most significant investments" and saying 'This is a work of exceptional importance'.
- Caravaggio's small surviving oeuvre includes only around 60 paintings, with just three known surviving Caravaggio portraits, highlighting the rarity of this chiaroscuro technique masterpiece.
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