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Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is held in a private collection in Florence. Barberini 30 years old and from the eminent Florentine Barberini family was a rapidly rising Church prelate a friend of Caravaggio’s patron Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte and himself a poet and patron of the arts.
