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

What Caravaggio offers via that technique is a type of religiosity that transcends its subjects — a complicated, painful, and disturbing religiosity that is all the more sacred because of it.

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 ...

Caravaggio’s turbulent personal life has ... 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, 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 ...

So the whole picture is involving. But what I am repeatedly drawn to is not the baroque space or Caravaggio’s tenebrism (his brilliant manipulation of pockets of lights within enveloping darkness).

A lost Caravaggio painting that was almost mistakenly sold at auction for a bargain price has gone on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, after being rescued and restored. “Ecce Homo ...