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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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    Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for .7 M.