It is not always interesting to imagine the artist behind the painting. But in the case of Italian painter Caravaggio, tales of his wild escapades and propensity for getting on the wrong side of ...

For centuries, Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence hung in a small Baroque chapel in Sicily—until a pair of art thieves absconded with the canvas in 1969. Now ...

New research suggests that Caravaggio ... century paintings and sculptures at Naples’s Museo di Capodimonte in September, found a previously undocumented payment receipt for the nativity scene ...