With around 80 works believed to survive today, here's our top 10 of paintings by Caravaggio: the ultimate Baroque Bad Boy.

For the first time in the U.S., an exhibit from Italy showcases masterpieces of the Baroque period of art. The St. Peterburg ...

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography.

Three years in the making, this also is the first time the museum will have an exhibit dedicated to the Baroque Italian ...

Caravaggio, “The Seven Acts of Mercy” (c.1607), oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, image via Web Gallery of Art) I have been writing a book about art in the historic ...

Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio by Elizabeth Currie. It releases in December from Reaktion Books. More than any other work by Caravaggio, closely observed fabrics and dress styles are ...

An Italian painter who changed the way people saw art was Caravaggio. He had a rather unique style and ability to infuse life into mere canvases and oil paintings, and his use of light and shadow, the ...

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 ...

The Prado Museum confirmed the authenticity of a painting, "Ecce Homo," as a work by Caravaggio. The painting was considered lost since its reappearance at an auction three years ago. It will be ...

Michelangelo Caravaggio was one of the great painters in the history of Western art. He also remains one of the most mysterious and elusive of artistic geniuses. A new biography wrestles with the man, ...

If dentistry has been a big subject in the history of European painting, I’ve missed it. Religious feeling, the rhythms of domestic life, displays of political power — yes. Tooth pulling? Not so much.