Caravaggio’s enormous popularity today may seem surprising, considering how out of sympathy his work and even his character ...

Caravaggio, born as Michelangelo Merisi, was a virtuoso of the chiaroscuro technique of lighting to make his subjects seem to come alive. He led a short and turbulent life, which included a forced ...

"All the Caravaggio specialists are in agreement ... the technology and styles of the era it was created in, and the techniques of the artist or their students. One expert involved in the ...

Caravaggio even paints a self-portrait in ... The exhibition will allow us to analyze his style and technique in detail.” The painting, discovered in Madrid, was actually painted in Naples ...

Of the three works that are a high point of Western art and Caravaggio's trademark chiaroscuro technique, perhaps the most celebrated is The Calling of Saint Matthew depicting the moment Jesus ...

Caravaggio restages one of Christian art’s most fabulous religious episodes in Salome but truly elevates the private emotions the moment elicited with his trademark techniques. His chiaroscuro ...

Caravaggio, whose real name was Michelangelo Merisi, was a master of the chiaroscuro technique of lighting to make his subjects seem to come alive. He died in 1610 in his late thirties after a ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive pictorial language that achieved ...

Taking advantage of his proximity to cultural cornerstones like Rome, Dickie also loves himself a grand Italian master; he gravitates towards Caravaggio, whose works turn up again and again in the ...

A lost masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was recently rediscovered ... a nuclear engineer famous for his scientific techniques in the study and conservation of significant cultural ...