New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds ...

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 ...

Caravaggio, the 17th-century Italian painter who mastered the play of dark atmospheres and light, was known for his impulsive ...

The Master of Light Caravaggio and His Descendants' runs at Seoul Arts Center’s Hangaram Art Museum until March 27 Italian ...

Case in point: the story of Caravaggio. This Italian painter is known as the ‘Godfather of the Baroque’ movement. His skill with depicting light and shadow, along with his evocative, sometimes ...

A forthcoming show of drawings at the Getty, The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome, explores what was, in all likelihood, the biggest waste of time in the history of art. On September 3, the ...

In the past month alone, shadowy portraits have been found hidden in longstanding masterpieces by Titian and Picasso. What ...

Provenance, or the documented ownership history of your artwork.

In this hidden gem of a palace, each work recounts a page in the history of Italian art, from Leonardo da Vinci to Caravaggio. Composed of 24 rooms, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is one of Milan’s great ...

Cupid is the symbol of love: here is how he was represented in the art of Correggio, Caravaggio, Manfredi, and Parmigianino, between light and shadow, passion and fragility.