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 ...

Italian art sleuths announced on Friday they had successfully authenticated a painting of the snake-haired Medusa from Greek mythology as the work of 17th-century master Caravaggio using X-ray ...

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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 ...

To this day, Caravaggio remains one of the most revered Italian painters of the late 16 th and early 17 th century. Conjuring brooding, violent, and dark biblical masterpieces, it should come as ...

Paintings and art have the beautiful ability to infuse life into a simple canvas. They tell stories about heroes, villains, destruction, war and also about the good times that artists would have ...