Caravaggio’s 16th-century painting “Narcissus,” in which a man bends over and gazes closely into a pool of water reflecting ...

With his final masterpiece on show in London and his influence all over Ripley with Andrew Scott on Netflix, the troubled ...

In his violent, carnal visions, sparks of divinity may glow even from within the blackest confines of our fallen reality.

We’ve all been watching Netflix’s Ripley, inspired by Patricia Highsmith’s thriller, The Talented Mr Ripley. The series ...

Paolo Rotondo introduces this season of the Italian Film Festival, which includes a biopic of bad-boy painter Caravaggio, the ...

“Colourful life. And death.” Caravaggio died in 1610 after a life of destructive celebrity hell-raising that Johnny Depp could only dream of. The great Italian painter left behind works of ...

Something I like about that beginning is we see the cat Lucio for the first time. I remember thinking, This cat knows what’s ...

What is it about the bad-boy old master that continues to pack out the gallery some 400 years after his death?

A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.

Notorious for his volatile temperament as much as the way he upended art history by sullying Renaissance idealism with a new, grimy realism and on-the-edge-of-one’s-seat immediacy, Caravaggio ...

“Then Martin Scorsese, of course. When he was making Mean Streets he used to go along to the Met to study the Caravaggio. He designed the film around its framing, by starting a scene in the ...