A new graphic biography of Caravaggio draws a provocative line from the old masters to the outsider artists of today.

Caravaggio clearly had a lot going on, and his work-though rarely autobiographical-shows it. Few oeuvres are seeded with as many subtle self-portraits. Around the time he was seeking pardon for ...

More than 60 years ago, art historians attributed a rare portrait to Caravaggio, the celebrated Baroque painter known for his vividly realistic artwork. But the piece has never been publicly ...

A-hed Buyer Makes a Big Bet His New Caravaggio Is Really by Caravaggio Experts are split over the authenticity of the long-lost work, but an anonymous buyer is a believer ...

Caravaggio’s “Crucifixion of Saint Andrew,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art, is his only altarpiece in the U.S.

Caravaggio, Medusa (1595–1598). Collection of the Uffizi, Florence. In The Cardsharps, the wealthy young boy stares intently at his cards, unaware of the chicanery that unfolds around him.

Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, near Milan. He arrived in Rome around 1592, a young artist hungry for success, and spent the next 14 years of his ...

I would like it to be known,” Turquin said. “If you have a Caravaggio in your museum, you have the best,” said Labarbe. Labarbe still marvels that the painting was discovered at all.

Caravaggio was known for using people he knew as his models, often from low social classes and including courtesans, like Fillide Melandroni of Siena, who was famous in Rome at the time.

Caravaggio was involved in gangs and gang street fights. He carried a sword, which was illegal if you were not an aristocrat, and he had it inscribed with a decidedly badass phrase, which ...

Caravaggio’s revolutionary style influenced everyone from modern photographers to Scorsese – but his life was just as provocative as his paintings, writes Alastair Sooke.