Barberini Palace - Finestre sull'Arte

State buys Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini for 30 million for Palazzo Barberini

The deed of purchase of Caravaggio's Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, a work of extraordinary importance that will become part of the heritage of the Italian state, was signed today at the Ministry of Culture. Upon completion of the required a...
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Rome, two baroque masterpieces by Algardi and Duquesnoy at Palazzo Barberini

Starting Oct. 21, 2025, the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome present a new chapter in the enhancement of its collections. Two extraordinary Baroque busts signed by Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1595 - Rome, 1654) and François Duquesnoy...
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From theft to chronicle: book on Caravaggio's missing Nativity in Rome

A few days after the closing of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition set up at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, the capital is once again wondering about one of the mysteries of Italian art history: the theft of the Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, paint...
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Caravaggio exhibition in Rome extends hours until midnight. New tickets available

Extraordinary public success for the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition at the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome, at the Palazzo Barberini venue(here is our review): as we reported a few days ago, less than two months after its opening, the exhibiti...
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Caravaggio exhibition sold out: how to visit it anyway

Sold out for the Caravaggio exhibition in Rome. The Caravaggio 2025 exhibition, housed in the historic rooms of Palazzo Barberini (our review here), is already all booked up for single visitors until its closing date, July 6, 2025. The inability to f...
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Rome, the Salone di Pietro da Cortona refurbished at Palazzo Barberini

In Rome, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (National Galleries of Ancient Art) present the refurbishment of the Salone Pietro da Cortona in Palazzo Barberini: this majestic space, one of the most representative symbols of the Roman Baroque, reope...
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Palazzo Barberini, Roberto Bolle dances among Caravaggio paintings at the exhibition (video)

A night between art in motion and the eternal art of Caravaggio: Roberto Bolle, on the eve of his 50th birthday, danced among the halls of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, surrounded by the masterpieces i Caravaggio exhibited for the Caravaggio 2025 exhib...
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Naples, Capodimonte welcomes Rubens, Baglione and Carracci: great masters on display

In Naples, the National Museum of Capodimonte is preparing to welcome three masterpieces of seventeenth-century painting, the result of loans that will enrich the exhibition itinerary of the Neapolitan museum, and in particular of the collaboration b...
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