This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ... the dark shades”), in the memorable phrase of the 17th-century painter and art theorist Giovan Pietro Bellori.

The mural remains a rare example of Caravaggio’s skill beyond easel paintings, though its future is uncertain following a lengthy legal dispute over the ownership of the property. Book tickets here.

Pluto is also completely nude, with his genitals on display—which might explain why the painting was once painted over, and not rediscovered until 1968. There are also several major Caravaggio ...

The “Caravaggio 2025” exhibition in Rome represents a symbolic return of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, to the ...

"The figures are tightly grouped, and the use of light and dark makes his art very accessible." The visitors' love for Caravaggio is intense, and the sellout crowds in the exhibition's four rooms ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610 ... and the grandly theatrical style of his paintings impressed, influenced and sometimes shocked ...