Caravaggio’s enormous popularity today may seem surprising, considering how out of sympathy his work and even his character ...

Yet it’s hard to believe that Caravaggio’s aims were sacrilegious. Instead, by showing us religious figures who are unidealized or have dirt under their fingernails, his paintings insist that ...

And Caravaggio did not just paint characters, he painted stories and epic figures, and gave them a real, emotional appeal.Here we mention 6 Caravaggio paintings that are a sight to behold. 2 / 7 ...

But why then celebrate Caravaggio, a most profane religious painter ... their selection of “an exceptional number of autograph paintings”, as if it were possible to establish which works ...

Caravaggio has been hailed as one of the Baroque era’s most significant masters. He burst on to the scene some 150 years after the Renaissance and had a profound impact on the way religious art ...

Yet, Caravaggio’s depiction of Mary Magdalene offers none of the scandal or sensationalism often associated with the religious figure. Instead, the painting captures an intensely human moment ...

He recalled that during his travels to Rome as a cardinal, he prayed in front of the painting by Caravaggio – “The Calling of ... ultimately initiating the most influential transformation of religious ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610 ... and the grandly theatrical style of his paintings impressed, influenced and sometimes shocked ...