Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Asharq Al Awsat Italy has paid 30 million euros for a Caravaggio painting of the future pope Urban VIII, the culture ministry said Tuesday, a work that will enter the Barberini museum collection in ...

The Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini — one of only three portraits by Caravaggio — is now permanently housed at Rome's Palazzo Barberini.

Caravaggio was both a great painter and a criminal. During his lifetime, from 1571 to 1610, he went on trial in Milan and Rome at least 11 times. He was accused of non-physical offenses, such as ...

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