LoginRitratto di Papa Paolo V
Caravaggio
c. 1605โ1606
Oil on canvas
203 cm ร 119 cm (80 in ร 47 in)
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Portrait of Pope Paul V (c. 1605โ1606) is a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571โ1610), now in the Palazzo Borghese (private collection), 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. The portrait is attested in the Borghese collection from 1650.
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c. 1605โ1606
Oil on canvas
203 cm ร 119 cm (80 in ร 47 in)
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Portrait of Pope Paul V (c. 1605โ1606) is a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571โ1610), now in the Palazzo Borghese (private collection), 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. The portrait is attested in the Borghese collection from 1650.
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