In promoting “Caravaggio 2025,” a landmark exhibition bringing together 24 paintings by the beloved Baroque rogue Caravaggio (1571–1610), Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private collections that rarely allow access to their works. Among the 24 works brought ...

With Fantastica, the 2025 Quadrennial Art Exhibition presents itself as a project that embraces imagination not as an escape from reality, but as a critical tool capable of reformulating the present.

In terms of status within the legendarium of art history, the French-born Vorticist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska does not seem like an automatic candidate for the biopic treatment. In fact, he’s obscure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Lute Player" formerly of Badminton House, which Art Recognition claims is a genuine Caravaggio based on AI analysis (image via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) An artificial intelligence company ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use ...