caravaggio

Two celebrated and connected artworks, “The Cardsharps” and “The Cheat With the Ace of Clubs,” provide a tantalizing view into their artistic creation.

Artists throughout the centuries have been inspired by St. Francis of Assisi. An early masterpiece by one of ...

If artists as brilliant as Michelangelo and artworks as definitive as his “David” are rare, the year marking ...

Music has been a muse for artists from antiquity through subsequent centuries, with musicians and singers depicted as ...

Every civilization loves the new year, a celebration of renewal. In the West, people make resolutions for self-improvement, ...

Except among some specialist art historians, Simone Peterzano is generally known only as the teacher of Caravaggio: the ...

Rome’s serene skies and stately buildings often serve to salve the wounds of its history. Layers of monuments ...

As the profane runs rampant, there is little left that is sacred. Sacred love has been turned on ...

I am guilty of being narcissistic. I’m an artist, and I want people to see my work. I ...

In 1600, Caravaggio, an Italian Baroque painter of biblical scenes, was commissioned by Tiberio Cerasi to paint a ...

Every year since 1768, the Summer Exhibition has been held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. ...

Two “noble, imposing” apostles by Domenico Beccafumi first introduced Naoko Takahatake, the curator of prints and drawings at ...

NEW YORK—Expressions of denial, guilt, and regret are written all over the faces of the main figures in ...

A 400-year-old picture that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio has been found in an attic ...