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

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...