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

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

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

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 ...

The mysterious painting features a shadowy figure that ... Growing up in the shadow of the Italian Renaissance, he was trained in the Baroque tradition, which is characterized by grandeur, drama ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is something of an Italian Renaissance trope that during the 15th and 16th centuries, painting rose in social and intellectual status, ranking itself alongside the art of poetry. Less known is ...