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 ...

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 ...

For most of its existence, “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”, the painting ... of Caravaggio’s final months in 1609-10: exaggerated contrasts between light and dark; intense presence of ...

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 ...

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 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.

“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 ...

A portrait of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Wikimedia Commons/Biblioteca Marucelliana) Two other religious paintings with the same innovative use of light and darkness ...