In conjunction with the 2025 Jubilee Year celebrations, the Palazzo Barberini in Rome is presenting “Caravaggio 2025”, one of the largest exhibitions ever held of the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), bringing together 24 paintings from Italian, American and other international public and private collections.

By bringing together some of his most celebrated works, alongside others that are lesser known but equally significant, this exhibition offers new, in-depth reflections on Caravaggio’s artistic and cultural revolution, exploring for the first time within such a broad context the innovation he injected into the artistic, religious and social landscape of his time.

Among the works showcased are: The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, only recently put on public display, Ecce Homo, currently displayed at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and returning to Italy for the first time in centuries; the Saint Catherine of Alexandria from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Martha and Mary Magdalene from the Detroit Institute of Arts, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness from the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, The Cardsharps from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, the Palazzo Barberini’s own famous Judith and Holofernes and The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, Caravaggio’s seldom displayed, last painting from the collection of the Intesa Sanpaolo bank.