The Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini — one of only three portraits by Caravaggio — is now permanently housed at Rome's ...

"Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini" had been on display in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome as part of a loan. Now, it's ...

Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of the largest ...

Caravaggio’s violent life as a fugitive fueled the dramatic chiaroscuro and the dark psychological depths of his ...

The Morgan Library & Museum puts the Baroque master’s early canvas in the context of his contemporaries and precursors, emphasizing his extraordinary naturalism.

Italy has paid 30 million euros for a Caravaggio painting of the future pope Urban VIII, the culture ministry said Tuesday, a ...

The portrait of a young Urban VIII by Caravaggio has been acquired by Italy and will become part of the Palazzo Barberini collection.

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 ...

A painting by Italian Renaissance master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and nearly auctioned off, was unveiled at Madrid's Prado Museum on Monday. Painted between ...

Caravaggio is a disturbing, unsavory, alluring, provocative, and for some, polarizing figure. No one would accuse him of being tender or a humanist. Some might say that he lacked empathy, but that ...

A Rebel Rock Musical, prodotto dalla Golden Ticket Company, porta sul palcoscenico la figura di Michelangelo Merisi, artista ...