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 ...
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 ...
An enlarged detail of Caravaggio's work at the Caravaggio's World of Art exhibition. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Porto Ercole is a charming seaside town in Tuscany, Italy, that provides soothing beach ...
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 ...
A visitor looks at Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini at the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in the Barberini Palace in Rome. Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP A rare painting by Italian Baroque ...
A rare Caravaggio painting, 'The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini,' will be displayed for the first time in Rome from November 23 to February 23. A rarely seen painting by Italian master Caravaggio ...