An art dealer is under investigation for potential fraud over a misattributed Caravaggio painting, with suspicions of false ...

The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private ...

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 ...

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini offers an astonishing survey of the painter, featuring ...

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 ...

His art is often identifiable for its use of chiaroscuro - dramatic contrast between light and shadow. Oddly, this technique might be the very reason why some of Caravaggio’s works have gone ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610 ... through a striking interplay of shadow and light. The unprecedented realism and the grandly ...