One of Caravaggio’s few surviving portraits, it dates from the period when the artist began to “ingagliardire gli oscuri” (“invigorate the dark shades ... a beam of light from the ...

It’s said that Caravaggio painted Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy ... The quietly glowing skull beneath her elbow winks at the first. Pure white light (along with the painting’s title) reminds ...

She goes on to explain that the hands are the distinctive element of the original works by Caravaggio; the strong wrists and hands, in livid colours and wonderful variations of nuances and light ...

Caravaggio’s father was a well-known architect ... for bringing an acute sense of realism and dramatic use of light and dark to his paintings. While this earned him the reputation of a ...

Caravaggio's Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is ... an artistic technique that uses strong contrasts between light and dark areas to create a sense of depth and drama, Leonardo da Vinci was credited ...