Here, from the Tenebrist master’s dramatic oeuvre, we spotlight his top 10 paintings, with points awarded for each work’s storytelling, behind-the-scenes intrigue, and sheer audacity. After missing ...

For the first time in the U.S., an exhibit from Italy showcases masterpieces of the Baroque period of art. The St. Peterburg ...

Caravaggio, “The Seven Acts of Mercy” (c.1607), oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, image via Web Gallery of Art) I have been writing a book about art in the historic ...

ROME – Caravaggio was notorious for his brawling, so it might be fitting that a claim by two Italian art historians that they discovered as many as 100 drawings by the painter in his boyhood has ...

His works are dramatic, raw and emotional — and became a reference point for filmmakers like Martin Scorcese.” ...

"Martha and Mary Magdalene" (1597-98) by Caravaggio; oil and tempera on canvas "Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness" by Caravaggio, 1604; oil on canvas FORT WORTH — In an age long before glossy ...

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography.

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 ...

(AP) ROME - Two Italian art historians claim to have discovered as many as 100 works, most of them drawings, by a very young Caravaggio in a collection long attributed to a master Milanese artist he ...

If dentistry has been a big subject in the history of European painting, I’ve missed it. Religious feeling, the rhythms of domestic life, displays of political power — yes. Tooth pulling? Not so much.

The Spanish government has stepped in to prevent the auction of a painting attributed to a little-known Spanish artist after art experts raised concerns the piece may actually be by Italian Baroque ...