The Morgan Library has organized a must-see show around the loan of a major Caravaggio from the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Boy With a Basket of Fruit,’ on loan from Rome’s Galleria Borghese, is an early scoop of an electric new style.

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 ...

For the first time in nearly 40 years, Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit has travelled from the Borghese Gallery in ...

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 ...

Caravaggio, “The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1607–1608), oil on canvas, 361 x 520 cm, Saint John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta (image credit: Caravaggio [Public domain], via Wikimedia ...

Mystery swirls around the death of the great Italian painter Caravaggio, who died at age 39 after a dissipated life of street brawls, brothels, and boozing. Now, as art lovers mark the 400th ...

Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to "photograph" his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.

While “cinematic” is wantonly thrown around when discussing other media, no word is so often misapplied in talking about movies as “painterly.” Usually it's a vague descriptor indicating wowing ...

A long-lost Caravaggio masterpiece that the Renaissance master had with him when he died has been discovered in a private collection, a leading expert on the artist has claimed. Mary Magdalen in ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Something is hiding in Caravaggio’s blood. Look closely, and you’ll find words. In ...