WHEN Thomas Clement Salomon became the director of Italy’s National Galleries of Ancient Art last January, he lost no time in hatching an ambitious plan: to bring Caravaggio’s Portrait of Monsignor ...
Why Caravaggio was as shocking as his paintings The world's most famous missing painting "As to who painted it, different experts are studying the work and right now we have no further information.
A portrait by the artist had a public debut in Rome on Friday, after decades hidden away in a private collection. Now Italy wants to buy it. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome When Thomas ...
A rare Caravaggio painting, 'The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini ... referring to one of Caravaggio's most famous works, which hangs in the St Louis of the French church in Rome.
By Nicholas Casey On a rainy afternoon in Madrid, John Banville, the celebrated Irish author, was in the Prado Museum searching for a Caravaggio. The painting in question — “Ecce Homo,” or ...