Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a ...

A partnership between the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Italian Embassy in India has brought "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" ...

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a 1606 painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is as fascinating for its intriguing history as for its style. Painted by the Italian Baroque artist towards the ...

The arrival of the painting in India comes after a centuries-long journey. Caravaggio is thought to have painted Magdalene in ...

Pluto is also completely nude, with his genitals on display—which might explain why the painting was once painted over, and not rediscovered until 1968. There are also several major Caravaggio ...

The exhibition, which opens on April 18 and runs through May 18, will feature some of the Italian master’s most celebrated ...

Thomas Clement Salomon is one of the three curators of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition, organized by the Barberini Palace, of which he is director, and the National Galleries of Classical Art.

The painting serves as an allegory ... not just worshipped. In Caravaggio’s first large-scale religious work, a violin-playing angel, its wings barely visible, evokes the bard Orpheus from ...