A new documentary on Caravaggio is debuting on the small screen next week, premiering on the streaming platform Marquee TV.
ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...
The pair has previously directed films about van Gogh, Sargent, Vermeer, Kahlo, and Cassatt, among dozens of others.
Caravaggio’s violent life as a fugitive fueled the dramatic chiaroscuro and the dark psychological depths of his ...
Italy’s Culture Ministry spent €30 million ($35 million) on a Caravaggio portrait of future Pope Urban VIII. The long-hidden painting resurfaced in 2024 and now joins other Caravaggios at Rome’s ...
Late this March, Maria Cristina Terzaghi, an associate professor at Italian university Roma Tre, was writing about the acclaimed Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, when art dealer ...
Italy has purchased a Caravaggio portrait for €30m, which officials describe as one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a single artwork. The purchase follows more than a year of ...
The original stretcher out of which Caravaggio’s Nativity was cut in a 1969 mafia heist still hangs, like an open wound, in an antechamber of the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. The small ...