By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Some 430 years after the Lombard artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, swept into Rome to enchant, and land, well-placed patrons with ...

"In the painting, Caravaggio links the killer and victim by portraying David as compassionate, even loving, in the way he gazes at the severed head of Goliath," the tour guide says. "And he made ...

Caravaggio, born as Michelangelo Merisi, was a virtuoso of the chiaroscuro technique of lighting to make his subjects seem to come alive. He led a short and turbulent life, which included a forced ...

"Each painting by Caravaggio is a star and each loan is an ... exhibit featured "exceptional loans" such as the David with the Head of Goliath. The star show of the Jubilee Year will also include ...