Many artists, including Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, has explored abstinence in their work Earlier this month ...

In 2014, Caravaggio expert and art historian Mina Gregori ... the master” in everything from the play of light and shadow (chiaroscuro) to the incline of Magdalene’s body, her interlaced ...

A painting attributed to Caravaggio ... chiaroscuro effects. However, the attribution has been decisively ruled out by the Prado experts, who are backed by Giuseppe Porzio, an art historian ...

She leans back with her eyes closed and lips slightly parted, her face flushed with a wave of intense emotion. At her feet lies a skull — possibly a quiet reminder of the impermanence of beauty.

A partnership between the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Italian Embassy in India has brought "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" ...

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 ... The dramatic chiaroscuro, meanwhile ...

The performances invited the audience to not only witness art but inhabit it — to feel its stillness, its strain, its intensity. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), a pioneer of ...

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a 1606 painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ... way religious art, especially Biblical themes, was painted. His style, especially the use of chiaroscuro ...

New Delhi, Her head thrown back, lips parted as if in a sigh, fingers entangled in repentance, eyes half-closed and a tear rolling down. Caravaggio's "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy", his finest and ...

In addition to the movie, Insight Editions is releasing a gorgeous tome that takes us inside the art and making of live-action ... wanted to leave his own mark on the beloved character of Hiccup ...

Mark Pope is looking to add another guard to the 2025-26 roster, and now he is looking all over Europe for the perfect fit. Kentucky has already landed one European player in the frontcourt, and ...