A portrait by the artist had a public debut in Rome on Friday, after decades hidden away in a private collection. Now Italy wants to buy it. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome When Thomas ...

In his brilliant, passionate, and all-too-brief life, Caravaggio defined a revelatory Baroque style marked by suspense and realism—not to mention high drama lighting. His daring and direct style shook ...

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 ...

The starting bid on a Roman villa with the world’s only Caravaggio ceiling painting, which was expected to fetch $533 million at auction, has been slashed after the property failed to sell Tuesday. A ...

Caravaggio’s early paintings are an incitement to pleasure. Beautiful, scantily clad boys prepare a concert for their – and Caravaggio’s – patron, Francesco Cardinal Maria del Monte, in The Musicians.

Caravaggio, “The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1607–1608), oil on canvas, 361 x 520 cm, Saint John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta (image credit: Caravaggio [Public domain], via Wikimedia ...

Two dozen works from museums and private collectors around the world are on display, with some reunited for the first time in centuries. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Some 430 years after ...

A historic villa in Rome with Caravaggio’s only ceiling painting – and a $410 million price tag – failed to secure any bids Thursday during a court-ordered auction, part of a messy inheritance ...

No. 36. PRometheus Chained to the Rock. School of Caravaggio. The mythological account of PRometheus is, "That Jupiter bound him to a pillar on Mount Caucasus with chains, and sent an eagle to prey ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, simply known by his surname, is hailed as one of the greatest painters in the canon of Western art. It is well documented that the artist was no saint and would ...

In the novel, The Caravaggio Syndrome (now available in English after several reprints in Italy), three characters—art historian Leyla, her queer student, Michael and the 17th-century Utopian ...