Today would have been the 445th birthday of Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. He died young, at just 38, but the world remains captivated by his dramatically-lit canvases, which often depict brutal ...

The year’s finest shows ranged from ancient Roman sculpture to exemplary contemporary painters, and focused on such giants as ...

The Wallace Collection has secured Victorious Cupid — the brazen, smirking, bare-fleshed Caravaggio's masterpiece painted ...

Caravaggio, “The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1607–1608), oil on canvas, 361 x 520 cm, Saint John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta (image credit: Caravaggio [Public domain], via Wikimedia ...

Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s senior art market editor in the Americas, Carlie Porterfield, about this week’s ...

In promoting “Caravaggio 2025,” a landmark exhibition bringing together 24 paintings by the beloved Baroque rogue Caravaggio (1571–1610), Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV's religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

Mystery swirls around the death of the great Italian painter Caravaggio, who died at age 39 after a dissipated life of street brawls, brothels, and boozing. Now, as art lovers mark the 400th ...

Caravaggio's Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (1597) is the only known ceiling work painted by the Baroque artist. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A luxurious Italian estate featuring the only ceiling ...

Caravaggio’s revolutionary style influenced everyone from modern photographers to Scorsese – but his life was just as provocative as his paintings, writes Alastair Sooke. Is any artist’s biography ...

PARIS — It was a benign search for the source of a leaky roof that brought the French homeowners face-to-face with the stunningly gruesome painting entombed Cask of Amontillado-style in a sealed area ...