Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For most of its existence, “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”, the painting visiting from Italy to star as The ...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, about 1603-4, Oil on canvas. The Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri ...
Boy Bitten by Lizard is among Caravaggio's most famous paintings. It features a provocatively dressed young boy recoiling in horror as a small lizard concealed within a pile of fruit bites his ...
When staging a blockbuster art exhibition, it is usual for curators to call on the leading museums of the world to loan their finest objects. But the National Gallery has this year turned instead to ...
The Evening Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. It wasn’t unusual for painters in the 17th century to ...
An exhibition featuring Caravaggio's 'Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy' and M V Dhurandhar's works opens in Mumbai on October 16, ...
Caravaggio confessed to murder, was sentenced to prison, escaped from prison and was found dead on a beach — most probably murdered. He wasn't even 40 by the time he died, yet within that scandalous ...
Five years ago, a long-lost painting experts claim is the work of Caravaggio was found in an attic. Now, it’s coming to New York. “I saw the painting in Paris and thought it was an absolute ...
MADRID (Reuters) - Art lovers eager to know whether a mysterious painting discovered in Spain is the work of Italian master Caravaggio must wait a few more months, said the gallery entrusted with ...
There’s a good girl and a bad girl in the National Gallery’s one room show billed as the Last Caravaggio. On the one wall, there’s Salome, who is just taking possession of the head of John the Baptist ...
CARAVAGGIO'S 'The Taking of Christ', which has hung in the National Gallery of Ireland for 10 years, is only a copy, experts now claim. They say they have discovered the real painting in Rome. Maria ...
As setting the scene goes, it’s an excellent choice, and its somewhat tentative attribution is fitting for an exhibition dominated by the work not of Caravaggio himself, but his followers and fans.