Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, near Milan. He arrived in Rome around 1592, a young artist hungry for success, and spent the next 14 years of his ...

It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 Caravaggio for auction. It is expected to go for $170 ...

A years-long inheritance battle between an American-born princess and her stepsons could soon reach a happy ending for the world’s only ceiling painting by the great Italian Renaissance artist ...

A painting attributed to Caravaggio is at the center of a major investigation into alleged fraud by a Spanish art dealer. The artwork had been billed as a newly discovered masterpiece by the ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, renowned for his revolutionary use of light and shadow, transformed the visual language of baroque art with his emotive realism and masterful technique ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610 ... and the grandly theatrical style of his paintings impressed, influenced and sometimes shocked ...

Born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, we don’t know a lot about the artist’s early life, but his work – which was mostly produced in Rome and is characterised by intense realism and the ...

One of the most fascinating art movements of all time, one that is also referred to as rather weird and unconventional, is the Surrealist era, or the Surrealism movement. Breaking off from the ...

Just Stop Oil is to stop throwing soup on paintings and slow marching in streets as it announces its final protest. In a statement, the environmental campaign group said: "Just Stop Oil's initial ...