Tag: Caravaggio
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Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for $34.7 M.
Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry. The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of “exceptional importance,” Alessandro read more
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From Caravaggio to Tribeca
New York Newsletter An Old Master as a young man, Richard Wright’s influence on John Wilson, Tribeca galleries vs. street vendors, other things to know about NYC this week. Hello from the depths of the freeze. Maybe it’s the cabin fever speaking, but I think it’s when it’s the most brutal out that we turn read more
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