Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to “photograph” his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.

Caravaggio was just 38 years old when he died in 1610, but he initiated profound change in European art with his in-your-face tableaux, his aggressive use of light and shadow (called chiaroscuro, ...

ROME (Reuters) - Caravaggio's "Resurrection of Lazarus," one of the most hauntingly beautiful paintings by the master of chiaroscuro style who lived at the cusp of the 16th and 17th centuries, has ...

To even begin to appreciate the profound genius of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, it is imperative to stand in the darkly lit back corner of the San Luigi dei Francesi church near Rome's Piazza ...

This Baroque bad boy also produced some of the most compelling paintings in the history of art. His dramatic chiaro-scuro lighting and dynamic compositions broke forcefully away from the balanced, ...

If taking nearly four years of art history taught me anything, it was one of my favorite words in Italian: chiaroscuro. The word itself is the juxtapositioning of two different root halves: ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the Italian artist Caravaggio, believed by many art lovers to be the greatest painter of all time. Rome, the city where he was both hailed and ...

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 light and ...