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Portrait of Pope Paul V (c. 1605–1606) is a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) now in the Galleria Borghese Rome.Camillo Borghese reigned as Pope Paul V from 1605 to 1621. Caravaggio’s biographer Giovanni Bellori records that the artist painted a seated portrait of him as pope which must place the work between Borghese’s election on 16 May 1605 and Caravaggio’s flight from Rome in May 1606 following the death of Ranuccio Tommassoni.
