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 ...

An unlikely art-historical find could make waves at auction this summer when a painting that experts claim is the long-lost second version of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (circa 1607) hits ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private collections that rarely allow access to their works. Among the 24 works brought ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the Italian artist Caravaggio, believed by many art lovers to be the greatest painter of all time. Rome, the city where he was both hailed and ...

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 ...