Caravaggio

Christie’s will auction a rare Caravaggio painting in New York later this month as part of Old Masters Week. Boy peeling a fruit depicts a young boy…

The most everyday objects appear in Italian still life paintings, as Aleid Ford explains.   The great age of still life painting in Italy, as in Holland…

A painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most accomplished Baroque painters of the generation following Caravaggio, was sold at Sotheby’s in Paris for…

A memorial park commemorating the influential and revolutionary Baroque artist Caravaggio is scheduled to be inaugurated in July in the Monte Argentario area…

Baroque marvels await you at every turn of the mind blowing maze that Rome is. But, where to begin? If you want the fast track to the 'Meraviglie Barocche' and…

Art critic Jonathan Jones recently named his 10 favorite artworks of all time for the British newspaper The Guardian. Not surprisingly, at least 3 are Italian…

Some big names in fashion and entrepreneurship have gotten together to form the non-profit association “Patrons of the Galleria Borghese,” to support and…

Painting: Ecce homo (Behold the Man) by Caravaggio (1573-1610) Three years after its exhibition devoted to the Italian Renaissance which attracted more than…

Carol King examines some of Pope Francis’ favourite things as revealed in a recent interview and discovers many of them are Italian. Pope Francis’ love of…

The Italian newspaper ‘Il Messaggero’ reports that several experts have identified a Caravaggio painting of St John the Baptist believed to have been lost.St…