In the Bible, the apostle Judas betrays Jesus by revealing where he has sought refuge after celebrating the Passover feast: the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives. The Temple Guards ...

Thus Caravaggio’s use of vulgar models is implicitly taken as an expression of solidarity with ordinary humanity; even better, it is imagined as a rebuke to the grand and a refusal of religious ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio ... a door frame as she holds a toddler-size Jesus.

A new exhibit of works by the Baroque painter is now on view in Rome until July 6, allowing for an updated look at his connection with spirituality.