Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini opened “Caravaggio 2025” last week, kicking off one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions of the Jubilee Year.  It’s a blockbuster pairing of Baroque painting’s biggest superstar with Baroque Rome’s prototypical palace. 

Arranged chronologically, the exhibition places the four Caravaggio paintings in Palazzo Barberini’s permanent collection in dialogue with 20 loans from around the world — some of them canonical works, others not normally visible to the public or only recently discovered.