As one of history’s most enigmatic and influential artists, Caravaggio’s short but colourful life has been the subject of wild speculation and conspiracy theories for four centuries. But a new book on ...

But a new book on the Renaissance's most tempestuous artist sheds fresh light on the Italian painter whose hot temper was as renowned as his work, and who died after a violent life aged 38. Historians ...

Bits of Caravaggio – a leg bone whose fractured sections had to be taped together, a slice of jaw, a smooth, hollow skull – were grubbed from an unmarked grave on the Tuscan coast a fortnight ago. The ...

Though history has left only sketchy details of the life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, that hasn't stopped the speculation. A revolutionary artist in the early part of the Baroque period, the ...

A new graphic biography of Caravaggio draws a provocative line from the old masters to the outsider artists of today. From “Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword”Credit...Fantagraphics Supported by By ...

M Peter Robb Bloomsbury, £25, pp567 Buy it at BOL Caravaggio disturbed all his contemporaries, and has gone on disturbing people ever since. Most people thought he was barking mad, and deeply ...

Caravaggio, whose genius produced masterpieces like The Death of the Virgin and David Victorious over Goliath, lived a violent life before he died in July 1610, aged just 38. Since his death 400 years ...

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio speaks most intensely to the modern world in his fascination with youth and sexuality, with violence and love, solitude and the spirit. As a passionate artist and a ...

The public lecture by Dr Helen Langdon on 'Caravaggio Biography in Paint' is now being held on Thursday at 6.15 p.m. at the Erin Serracino-Inglott Hall. The public lecture by Dr Helen Langdon on ...