Italy buys Caravaggio portray for about $35 million, one among its largest payouts for a single work

ROME (AP) — Italy has purchased a uncommon portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of many largest state investments ever for a single art work, the nation’s Tradition Ministry stated Tuesday. The portrait, painted round 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later […]