By that criterion broadly deployed, Caravaggio’s art is sacramental — the work of a demon who could paint as an angel, translating sin into inspiration. As it were, it’s precisely that ...

Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in Milan in 1571, named not for the artist, but, most unsuitably, for an angel, as his birth fell on the feast day of the Archangel Michael. His family moved to ...

The angel-like figure, resembling one of the young men depicted alongside the saint in Caravaggio's "The Calling of St. Matthew," appears to hold his left index finger with his right hand ...

There's Caravaggio's first religious painting, St. Francis of Assisi, who's depicted in an angel's arms while one of his early companions, Brother Leo, is barely visible in the surrounding darkness.

A record-breaking exhibition in Rome celebrates an artist who refused to live in the shadow of Leonardo, Michelangelo and ...

In Caravaggio’s first large-scale religious work, a violin-playing angel, its wings barely visible, evokes the bard Orpheus from Greek mythology as he serenades a sleeping Madonna and Child.

“The Calling of St. Matthew,” “St. Matthew and the Angel,” and “The Martyrdom of St. Matthew.” Thomas Clement Salomon is one of the three curators of the Caravaggio 2025 ...

There’s Caravaggio’s first religious painting, St. Francis of Assisi, who’s depicted in an angel’s arms while one of his early companions, Brother Leo, is barely visible in the surrounding ...