A crypt in the Tuscan town of Porto Ercole, Italy, could contain the 400-year-old bones of artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, anthropologists said. Entertainment News // 1 decade ago.

Boosters claim the work to be by 16th-century Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply by his last name. But there are also high-profile experts who claim the painting ...

An Italian villa containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio could become the world's most expensive home. Ministero della Giustizia What could be the world ...

To even begin to appreciate the profound genius of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, it is imperative to stand in the darkly lit back corner of the San Luigi dei Francesi church near Rome's ...

Born Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), Caravaggio (as he would be known in later life) would eventually influence the Baroque style of painting. Caravaggio's last resting place has never been ...

Martha and Mary Magdalene, by Old Master painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, circa 1598, oil and tempera on canvas. The painting is on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Detroit ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, “Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist” (c. 1609-10), oil on canvas (© The National Gallery, London) Just two paintings are in this show.

Aerial view of Michelangelo's birth place - the small town of Caravaggio, not far from Bergamo in northern Italy. A chalk drawing of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (c.1621) by Ottavio Leoni ...

The painting is one of only 60 known Caravaggio pieces in existence and is ... Spain's Prado Museum will unveil a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was ...

In 1606, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio stabbed a man to death in a brawl over a tennis match, or possibly a woman. He fled Rome and escaped to Malta, where he became a wealthy knight and built ...