The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite ...

Caravaggio s’aggira inquieto sulla scena, tormentato dal sibilare dei serpenti sulla testa di Medusa, volto terrificante che ha appena finito di dipingere; un volto che lo atterrisce e lo attrae.

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Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio (nome tratto dal paese lombardo che gli ha dato i natali), nasce il 29 settembre del 1571 da un architetto a servizio del marchese di Caravaggio, Francesco ...

An Italian painter who changed the way people saw art was Caravaggio. He had a rather unique style and ability to infuse life into mere canvases and oil paintings, and his use of light and shadow, the ...