Rome is to celebrate Caravaggio on the occasion of this year's Roman Catholic Jubilee Holy Year with the biggest ever show on the iconic artist at Palazzo Barberini from March 7 to July 6. Enriched by paintings that are rarely visible to the public or exhibited in Italy for the first time and by loans of exceptional importance, 'Caravaggio 2025' is an exhibition produced by the National Galleries of Ancient Art in collaboration with the Galleria Borghese.

Presented on Wednesday in Rome, 'Caravaggio 2025' will bring together about twenty paintings by Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610) but perhaps more since "the last loans are being closed", as the director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art Thomas Clement Salomon explained. Among the works on display will be the Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, recently presented to the public, and the Ecce Homo, currently exhibited at the Prado in Madrid.