ROME — The exhibition Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini, one of the two seats of the Galleria Nazionale di Roma, is particularly personal. Third, he obsessively copied reality, almost never creating figures wholly from his imagination, and he never made preparatory drawings. Not a single drawing by Caravaggio exists. She often posed for Caravaggio; her face recurs again and again in this exhibition. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, “David with the head of Goliath” (1606–10), oil on canvas; Galleria Borghese, Rome (photo Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic)The second section focuses on portraits.