Italian art is the protagonist of Art Talks, a series of meetings and dialogues on the masterworks exhibited in the Italy ...

Vatican Museums Director Barbara Jatta and Auxiliary Bishop Andrea Lembo of Tokyo explained the symbol of hope lent by the Vatican to the world expo currently underway in Japan. The painting is on dis ...

Jonathan Harr’s fast-paced new nonfiction work, “The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece,” is such a tale. Written as an art-world page turner, the book describes how a ...

Richard E. Spear is one of the most respected authorities in the world on Italian baroque painting, especially the work of Caravaggio. G. Thomas Tanselle is the most influential bibliographical ...

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 ...

"Let's imagine for a moment that we see Caravaggio's deposition from the cross, without knowing anything about the man at the centre of the scene, nor about his companions: no Gospel, no name ...