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- Italy has acquired Caravaggio's Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini for €30 million, expanding the Barberini museum in Rome.
- Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli described the purchase as one of the state's most important art investments.
- The painting was authenticated in 1963 and depicts Barberini before his papacy.
- It was previously exhibited at Palazzo Barberini, marking its first public display, and follows the purchase of Antonello da Messina's Ecce Homo.
