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 ...

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

Boy Bitten by Lizard is among Caravaggio's most famous paintings. It features a provocatively dressed young boy recoiling in horror as a small lizard concealed within a pile of fruit bites his ...

In promoting “Caravaggio 2025,” a landmark exhibition bringing together 24 paintings by the beloved Baroque rogue Caravaggio (1571–1610), Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini ...

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 ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, about 1603-4, Oil on canvas. The Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri ...

When staging a blockbuster art exhibition, it is usual for curators to call on the leading museums of the world to loan their finest objects. But the National Gallery has this year turned instead to ...

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There’s a good girl and a bad girl in the National Gallery’s one room show billed as the Last Caravaggio. On the one wall, there’s Salome, who is just taking possession of the head of John the Baptist ...

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 ...

Hype is to the art world what a horse is to a carriage: it makes the wheels go 'round. But when National Gallery of Canada director Marc Mayer, speaking at a media conference in Toronto Wednesday, ...