The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite ...

Caravaggio, an Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, changed the way people saw art with his unique style and ability to infuse life in mere canvases and oil paintings. He used ...