Caravaggio’s Magdalene in Ecstasy travels to Bengaluru This painting, which is believed to have been painted in 1606, while Caravaggio was in hiding, will be displayed at the National Gallery of ...

That hardly fits the reputation for a transgressive "accursed artist" that Caravaggio — whose full name was Michelangelo Merisi — accrued over the centuries.

The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio ...

Caravaggio’s enormous popularity today may seem surprising, considering how out of sympathy his work and even his character are with almost every aspect of contemporary art and culture. He is an ...

The donor of the chapel was a French cardinal, Matthieu Cointerel, who died in 1585. This was the first commission for Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who was hired in July 1599.

Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an early Italian Baroque painter who combined naturalistic theatrical motifs with provocative unreadability.

Seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s painting, ‘Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy’, can be seen at KNMA Saket till May 18.

This is Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a painting recently attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610), which has been brought to India through a joint partnership between the ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born in Milan in 1571, was a disruptive force in European art. Rejecting the polished elegance of late Renaissance mannerism, his figures—biblical ...

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 ...