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

Lost for hundreds of years after it was created sometime in the early 1600s and known only through recreations until ...

Bengaluru's National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is hosting Caravaggio's "Maddalena in Estasi (Magdalene in Ecstasy)," a $50 ...

With only about 60 paintings by Caravaggio known to exist, curators are right to call it one of the most ambitious shows of ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...