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 ...

Certain artists arrive to us fully formed. The Baroque artist Caravaggio — iconic for his dramatic chiaroscuro and stormy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Mass layoffs at the MFA Boston, the Newark Museum of Art gets a new director, and why we can never get enough of Caravaggio.

Morning at the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odesa: A Ukraine city under increased recent bombardment as Russia targets Black Sea and Danube river ports exporting grain through an agreed ...

A severed head, a tortured man, a murdered woman, each of them caught in the illuminating gaze of a visionary artist. Which other long-dead painter talks to our fears like Caravaggio? Unnervingly ...

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 ...