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

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.

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.

An Italian scholar claims he has discovered the earliest known painting by Caravaggio. There are several versions of the painter’s humble Boy Peeling Fruit, but Baroque art expert Gianni Papi ...

“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 ...

So the whole picture is involving. But what I am repeatedly drawn to is not the baroque space or Caravaggio’s tenebrism (his brilliant manipulation of pockets of lights within enveloping darkness).

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 ...