Today would have been the 445th birthday of Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. He died young, at just 38, but the world remains captivated by his dramatically-lit canvases, which often depict brutal ...

In promoting “Caravaggio 2025,” a landmark exhibition bringing together 24 paintings by the beloved Baroque rogue Caravaggio (1571–1610), Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini ...

During a scholarly symposium in Monte Carlo on May 16, a team of Italian art historians led by Dr. Roberta Lapucci, Conservation Professor and Department Head at Istituto ...

ROME–Caravaggio is perhaps best known in the art world for his dramatic command of light and dark–known as chiaroscuro–which gives realistic life to his masterpieces through the manipulation of sharp ...

A casual glance at an auction catalog set a British art historian on the path to discovering the brushstrokes of Caravaggio on a painting previously attributed to an anonymous follower of the Baroque ...

Italy Buys Caravaggio Painting for About $35 Million, One of Its Largest Payouts for a Single Work ROME (AP) — Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros ...

Caravaggio, “The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1607–1608), oil on canvas, 361 x 520 cm, Saint John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta (image credit: Caravaggio [Public domain], via Wikimedia ...

A painting recovered from a family attic near Toulouse, France, could be a long-lost work by Caravaggio -- and may be worth as much as 120 million euros ($136.5 million). While some experts believe ...

But a new book on the Renaissance's most tempestuous artist sheds fresh light on the Italian painter whose hot temper was as renowned as his work, and who died after a violent life aged 38. Historians ...

He was named after an angel, yet Caravaggio led a louche existence in the shadows of a society where prostitution, violence and murder ran rife. A revelatory new biography sheds some much-needed light ...

Scholars are divided about whether a painting found in an attic is actually by the Italian painter. Take a close look: There are arguments on both sides. By Scott Reyburn LONDON — Michelangelo Merisi, ...

ROME — Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of the largest state investments ever for a single artwork, the country’s Culture ...