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 ...

Certain artists arrive to us fully formed. The Baroque artist Caravaggio — iconic for his dramatic chiaroscuro and stormy ...

Two of the 17th century’s most drama-loving artists are paired together for the first time in a new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painter Caravaggio and the sculptor ...

Caravaggio transformed religious painting with realism and raw emotion. This episode explores The Taking of Christ, revealing how light, composition, and biography collide in a moment of betrayal.

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A painting by Italian Renaissance master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and nearly auctioned off, was unveiled at Madrid's Prado Museum on Monday. Painted between ...

Mystery swirls around the death of the great Italian painter Caravaggio, who died at age 39 after a dissipated life of street brawls, brothels, and boozing. Now, as art lovers mark the 400th ...

While “cinematic” is wantonly thrown around when discussing other media, no word is so often misapplied in talking about movies as “painterly.” Usually it's a vague descriptor indicating wowing ...

Dea Picture Library/DeAgostini/Getty Images Aurora, 1621, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591-1666), fresco. Casino of the Villa Ludovisi, Rome. One lucky buyer can own the only ...

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 ...