Amidst the deeply-textured surface of Julian Schnabel’s dark canvas, the face of Goliath is revealed, a reworking of Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath. The piece is a direct result of ...

Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum (KMH) has received a $416,000 grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles to conserve two Baroque masterpieces: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s David with the ...

This Baroque bad boy also produced some of the most compelling paintings in the history of art. His dramatic chiaro-scuro lighting and dynamic compositions broke forcefully away from the balanced, ...

KPCC Culture Correspondent Marc Haefele reviews "Caravaggio: Masterpieces from the Galleria Borghese," at the Getty Center through Feb. 18, 2018. He was the Billy the Kid of great Italian painters, a ...

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

As Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived out his final months in Naples in 1610, dying of a wound to the face, he was haunted by one of the crucifixion narrative’s most psychologically wrenching ...

Nobody disputes Caravaggio’s immense achievement. Yet it’s hard not to wonder what he might have accomplished if he had lived into old age — say 45? As a young man he amassed a police record worthy of ...