Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places. Detail of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, “The ...

The scene feels real, not idealised, and Caravaggio’s dramatic light makes the moment vivid. Many viewers were shocked by the painting at the time, but today it is praised for its honesty.

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ... of shadow and light. The unprecedented realism and the grandly theatrical style of his paintings impressed ...

It is an exploration of the physical and spiritual, Baroque and sublime, amoral and pure, light and dark. Just as Caravaggio’s paintings illuminate these two states of being, and Campanella ...

Art historians have spoken of their shock and delight after two paintings discovered in a French church were found to be by old master Caravaggio ... and mastery of light and darkness are considered ...

Caravaggio’s father was a well-known ... for bringing an acute sense of realism and dramatic use of light and dark to his paintings. While this earned him the reputation of a groundbreaking ...

“The Master of Light Caravaggio and His Descendants,” on view at the Seoul Arts Center’s Hangaram Art Museum, brings together 57 masterpieces — 10 attributed to the controversial genius ...