Italian artist Caravaggio is beloved by many, but had he lived today he may have been cancelled. A ‘fan’ goes behind his work ...

The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of light and ...

For Caravaggio is the unassailably undisputed master of chiaroscuro.The painter’s very name has come to be all but synonymous with that characteristic contrasting of dark and light — even ...

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

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

Caravaggio’s paintings are based on historical events, but his genius is in bringing these events alive. Using natural light, silent space, deep black void, blood red, absorption and immersion ...

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

Bengaluru, The thing that got 11-year-old Mahaavin amazed when he discovered European master Caravaggio for the first time is ...

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.

Caravaggio's 1598 portrait of Maffeo Barberini spent centuries with the family before entering a private collection in the 1930s. The sitter, Maffeo Barberini, became pope in 1623. Price Database ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized ...

"Our life experience makes sense only if invested by a spiritual light." The Caravaggio Madonna at the Augustinians' Basilica. In the Augustinian Madonna, dating from the early 1600s, ...