"The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini" features the future Pope Urban VIII, who hailed from the noble Roman Barberini family and was a friend of Caravaggio's patron. A visitor looks at the private ...

Caravaggio's 1598 portrait of Maffeo Barberini spent centuries with the family before entering a private collection in the ...

His portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, who would go on to become 17th century Pope Urban VIII - a great patron of the arts who had sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini among his ...

His portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, who would go onto become 17th century Pope Urban VIII, was attributed to him in 1963. Monsignor Barberini was a great patron of the arts who had ...

Pope Francis has published a letter addressed especially to priests in formation to promote the renewal of the study of Church history, emphasizing its importance in better interpreting reality ...

"The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini" features the future Pope Urban VIII, who hailed from the noble Roman Barberini family and was a friend of Caravaggio's patron.

In an address to participants of the first plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Culture and Education on Nov. 21, Pope Francis said desire, fearlessness, and Christian hope are remedies needed to ...

the stately residence Barberini had built after he became Pope Urban VIII in 1623. It is one of only a few surviving Caravaggio portraits. “This is the portrait by Caravaggio that everyone ...

Dated to the early 1600s, the portrait of Maffeo Barberini, the son of a Florentine nobleman who was coronated as Pope Urban VIII in 1623, shows the future head of the Catholic church wearing a ...

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