A partnership between the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Italian Embassy in India has brought "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" ...

Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, near Milan. He arrived in Rome around 1592, a young artist hungry for success, and spent the next 14 years of his ...

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 ...

The performances invited the audience to not only witness art but inhabit it — to feel its stillness, its strain, its intensity. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), a pioneer of ...

In 2014, Caravaggio expert and art historian Mina Gregori, now 101 years old, said she’d found the original in a private collection in Europe – arguing that you can see the “hand of the ...

This is the city most closely associated with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive pictorial language that achieved ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, renowned for his revolutionary use of light and shadow, transformed the visual language of baroque art with his emotive realism and masterful technique ...

It's like The Godfather, one reformed drug trafficker tells me. The mythical gangster film centred on an organised crime dynasty locked in a transfer of power. Communities in Scotland currently ...

Fans of the classic film The Godfather were stunned to realise how Marlon Brando achieved the iconic "bulldog" look for his character. Brando, who won Best Actor at the Oscars for his portrayal ...

A subtle detail used in The Godfather has fans thrilled as they realise what orangers were used for. The Francis Ford Coppola trilogy has gone down in history as one of Hollywood's finest ...