Here, from the Tenebrist master’s dramatic oeuvre, we spotlight his top 10 paintings, with points awarded for each work’s storytelling, behind-the-scenes intrigue, and sheer audacity. After missing ...
Certain artists arrive to us fully formed. The Baroque artist Caravaggio — iconic for his dramatic chiaroscuro and stormy ...
Caravaggio (b. 1571) is among the newest of the Old Masters. Though in one contemporary's estimation he was egregius in urbe pictor, the outstanding painter in Rome, he fell out of fashion a few ...
ROME (Reuters) - Italian art experts say they have discovered about 100 previously unknown sketches and paintings by Caravaggio, the Italian baroque painter whose realistic and dramatic canvases set a ...
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 the use of ...
This article began as a review of Caravaggio 2025, a blockbuster exhibition of the artist’s work that ran earlier this year in Rome. From March to July, the show drew almost half a million visitors ...