Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait for €30m

The purchase is part of wider plans to prevent major artworks from being bought by private collectors.

Italy buys rare Caravaggio painting for €30 million, calling it ‘a work of exceptional importance’

The painting, dating from around 1598 depicts Maffeo Barberini, who later became Pope Urban VIII.

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Italy buys Caravaggio painting for about $35 million, one of its largest payouts for a single work

ROME (AP) -- Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of the largest state investments ever for a single artwork, the country's Culture Ministry said Tuesday. The portrait, painted around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII. The painting was acquired from a private collection by the Italian state after over a year of negotiations and will now enter Rome

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Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million - The Copenhagen Post

Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million  The Copenhagen Post