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 ...

LONDON — Darkness … light and dark … light and dark in combination … chiaroscuro. These words sprang to mind the moment I stepped into Gallery 46 of the National Gallery. Why? Because the gallery ...

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 ...

When it was announced in January that the National Gallery in London would lend its celebrated The Supper at Emmaus (1601) by Caravaggio to the Ulster Museum in Belfast—under the National Treasures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist by Caravaggio, 1609-1610 (Yui Mok/PA Wire) The buzziest new show in central London ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610 (National Gallery) Disfigured, weak, in fear of his life and desperate to return to Rome – ...

The painting (pictured below right) contains many of the elements that Caravaggio’s patrons and fellow artists found so seductive, with dramatic lighting effects combining with subtle naturalism and ...

Caravaggio is a disturbing, unsavory, alluring, provocative, and for some, polarizing figure. No one would accuse him of being tender or a humanist. Some might say that he lacked empathy, but that ...

MADRID, April 29 (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 ...