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 ...

This beautifully produced graphic biographical novel depicts the violent world of a great artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), whose fiery temperament erupted both on canvas and on ...

Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s original painting ‘Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy’ was unveiled at ...

There was art before him and after him, and they were not the same," wrote Time Magazine's art critic Robert Hughes of the ...

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 ...

ROME - An Italian art restorer said she has identified a painting long thought to be a copy of a Caravaggio masterpiece, "St. Jerome Writing," as an authentic work of the Baroque master. But the ...

The original stretcher out of which Caravaggio’s Nativity was cut in a 1969 mafia heist still hangs, like an open wound, in an antechamber of the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. The small ...

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 ...

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 ...