Despite a short life marred by brawls, arrests and even murder, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as ...

The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

A 17th century painting that was lost, then rediscovered, is on display at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Why it ...

After years of silence, Alkimia Interactive emerges from the shadows and shares some design secrets from the upcoming title to be published by THQ Nordic.

Was Caravaggio the World’s First Photographer? That's what an art preservationist is arguing, based on trace materials found in the Baroque master's canvases. It's been argued that Renaissance ...

An art collector in Spain has been left stunned by the botched restoration of a copy of a painting by Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The Valencia-based private collector paid €1,200 ...

This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque ...

“Baroque architecture emerged as a backlash to the simplicity and austerity of the ... of making highly realistic optical illusions of three-dimensional objects and spaces on a two-dimensional surface ...

(According to Pliny the Elder, the ancient painter Zeuxis demonstrated his acumen by painting grapes so realistic that birds tried to eat them.) Curtains often appear in Baroque and Cubist ...

Born in Seville, in 1599, Diego Velázquez would become one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. A contemporary of artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, he rose from ...

VIENNA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- "Rembrandt-Hoogstraten: Color and Illusion," at Vienna's Art History Museum until Jan. 12, 2025, offers a rare glimpse into Baroque masterpieces by Rembrandt and his ...