Palazzo Barberini hosts 24 extraordinary works of art by Italian master artist Caravaggio, March 6th, 2025

Rome’s magnificent Palazzo Barberini hosted the conference on “Caravaggio 2025”, a collection of 24 paintings by Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio, one of the world’s greatest painters as well as “photographer” (modern-day photography is after all based on Caravaggio’s incredible use of lights and shadows).  

The conference, which was hosted by the director of Palazzo Barberini, Thomas Clement Salomon, also had on hand the director of Rome’s Galleria Borghese, Francesca Cappelletti.

The exhibit itself outlines Caravaggio’s innovative force during the artistic, religious and social panorama of his time with masterpieces that have been exhibited for the first time in Italy, such as the “Portrait of Maffeo Barberini”.  

Caravaggio's paintings have arrived from the most prestigious Italian and international museums as well as from private collections (which have been rarely seen by the general public). 

It is unquestionably one of the most important and ambitious artistic projects ever dedicated to the work of Caravaggio and which has also been organised during the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Jubilee.  

His paintings, which are on display from March 7^th until July 6^th, 2025, have arrived from Fort Worth, Texas, New York, Kansas City, Hartford, London, Dublin, Milan, Naples and Madrid with its “Ecce Homo” masterpiece (it was discovered in the Spanish capital in 2021 and has only returned now to Italy after a 400-year absence).