A lost Caravaggio painting that was almost mistakenly sold at auction for a bargain price is going on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, after being rescued and restored.

Item 1 of 5 A person takes a picture of a painting by artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio at the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition at Palazzo Barberini, in Rome, Italy, March 6, 2025.

With only about 60 paintings by Caravaggio known to exist, curators are right to call it one of the most ambitious shows of ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized ...

Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, ... His criminal records tell of brawls, arrests and the murder that forced him into exile.

Caravaggio, who was born in Milan, was compelled to flee Rome, ... His exile spanned slightly over four years, and concluded ...

In the novel, The Caravaggio Syndrome (now available in English after several reprints in Italy), three characters—art historian Leyla, her queer student, Michael and the 17th-century Utopian ...

New research suggests that Caravaggio painted one of the Baroque era’s most dramatic nativity scenes in Naples rather than Sicily, as previously thought, indicating that the artist’s final ...

Experience Caravaggio's masterpiece, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, at KNMA Saket, ... It was created in exile, a poignant portrayal of spiritual transcendence born from personal chaos.

There's Caravaggio's first religious painting, St. Francis of Assisi, who's depicted in an angel's arms while one of his early companions, Brother Leo, is barely visible in the surrounding darkness.