ROME (AP) — 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 ...

A painting by Italian Renaissance master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and nearly auctioned off, was unveiled at Madrid's Prado Museum on Monday. Painted between ...

This beautifully produced graphic biographical novel depicts the violent world of a great artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), whose fiery temperament erupted both on canvas and on ...

Caravaggio, an Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, changed the way people saw art with his unique style and ability to infuse life in mere canvases and oil paintings. He used ...

Today would have been the 445th birthday of Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. He died young, at just 38, but the world remains captivated by his dramatically-lit canvases, which often depict brutal ...

Caravaggio famously painted various biblical scenes, such as the beheadings of John the Baptist, Holofernes and Goliath. Though the artist did not meet such a violent demise in the early 17th century, ...

Heads tilted, eyes narrowed, experts are now asking: Could that really be a lost Caravaggio painting hiding in a leaky attic near Toulouse, France? The artwork in question—depicting biblical heroine ...

He was a brawler and a duelist. His temper was so fiery that if he didn't like what someone said about one of his paintings even if those comments were flattering he would slash the art to ribbons. So ...