More importantly, Seward’s account of the artist’s life is not easily reconciled with his picture of Caravaggio as a mystic. ... Such tensions and ambiguities still swirl around Caravaggio.

11.25 x 15 in. (28.6 x 38.1 cm.) Still life in the style of Caravaggio (still life with peacock feathers and a conch shell). Silver contact print, the image measuring 11¼x15 inches (28.6x38.1 cm.), ...

To this day, Caravaggio remains one of the most revered Italian painters of the late 16 th and early 17 th century. Conjuring brooding, violent, and dark biblical masterpieces, it should come as ...

FROM that day - May 28, 1606 - it was as though he was a dead man walking. He had committed a capital offence and there was a price on his head.… ...

Caravaggio went to greater extremes than his contemporaries, in life as in art. The artists’ quarter of Rome at the end of the 16th century was a dangerous area. Fights were common and fists ...