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Virginio Cesarini was a poet and defender of Galileo who was a courtier in the service of Cardinal Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII. The present composition, which shows Cesarini in clerical dress, is related to van Dyck's portrait of circa 1623-4 in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.