But a new book on the Renaissance's most tempestuous artist sheds fresh light on the Italian painter whose hot temper was as renowned as his work, and who died after a violent life aged 38. Historians ...
Though history has left only sketchy details of the life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, that hasn't stopped the speculation. A revolutionary artist in the early part of the Baroque period, the ...
In conjunction with the extraordinary loan of Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus from the National Gallery, London, Keith Christiansen of the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses the genius of this ...