Caravaggio's artistic style was to use extreme dark and light, and few other colours, thus making a flash of red or yellow seem almost luminescent on the canvas. Art historians use various methods ...
The Maffeo Barberini portrait, with its sparsely coloured decor, "plays on light and shadow", Caravaggio's signature style, art historian and curator Paola Nicita told AFP. "The heart of the ...
A newly authenticated painting by celebrated 17th Century artist Caravaggio is going on show at the Prado museum in Madrid. Ecce Homo, which shows Roman governor Pontius Pilate presenting Christ ...