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 ...

Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance. It boasts works by legendary artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, ...

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 ...

A portrait by the Baroque master Caravaggio, held in a private collection for over 60 years, went on display to the public for the first time at the gallery – part of the National Gallery of Ancient ...

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 ...

The artist portrayed him sitting in a chair ... A Caravaggio painting that "everyone wanted to see" Characteristic features of Caravaggio's style, such as the brightness of the facial skin ...