May 9 (UPI) --A Caravaggio painting discovered after going largely unseen for more than 400 years went on display Thursday in New York ahead of its planned auction in June. The artwork, Judith and ...

He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula" (1610), oil ...

The Prado Museum confirmed the authenticity of a painting, "Ecce Homo," as a work by Caravaggio. The painting was considered lost since its reappearance at an auction three years ago. It will be ...

Michelangelo Merisi, the towering Italian artist known as Caravaggio, created his greatest paintings more than 350 years ago, and yet in many ways they impress us as being modern. Scholars explain ...

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MADRID — Spain's Prado Museum on Monday confirmed that a painting that was due to be auctioned in Madrid in 2021 is in fact a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was ...

Late this March, Maria Cristina Terzaghi, an associate professor at Italian university Roma Tre, was writing about the acclaimed Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, when art dealer ...

An Italian villa containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio could become the world's most expensive home. Ministero della Giustizia What could be the world’s ...

Two of the 17th century’s most drama-loving artists are paired together for the first time in a new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painter Caravaggio and the sculptor ...

Born Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), Caravaggio (as he would be known in later life) would eventually influence the Baroque style of painting. Caravaggio's last resting place has never been ...