There was no figure of power in seventeenth-century Europe who did not have a portrait executed by the formidable hand of Carlo Maratti in his home. Four hundred years after the artist's birth, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica present a careful selection of works by the Master from Marche region, a central figure of Roman and Italian painting in the Baroque era. His fame went far beyond the city of Rome, where he had built a certain name for himself thanks to his paintings of sacred subjects and the numerous decorations executed for the city's churches. In his portraits, Maratti was capable of combining great attention to detail and an in-depth study of physiognomic features with a penetrating investigation of the personality. The result delivered the subject to posterity, representing him among objects rendered with great mastery, and chosen specifically to reveal his rank, profession, taste, aspirations and most hidden interests. Not only popes, prelates and members of the papal aristocracy were immortalised in his gallery, but also beautiful Roman ladies, Lords of the Grand Tour, professionals, relatives and friends.