The Baltimore-Washington area has obtained its first painting by the celebrated 17th century Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” went on view to the public late ...

Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros (about $35 million), one of the largest state investments ever for a single artwork, the country’s Culture Ministry ...

Trinity Fine Art is set to present a trio of masterworks that illuminate the transition of painting in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plague swept through Italy’s southern Mediterranean coast in 1656, ravaging towns and villages in the kingdom of Naples. The ...

You may be expecting me, a lover of art, to express outrage over the latest botched art restoration job making headlines in recent weeks: a piece of upsetting work apparently perpetrated by a Spanish ...

The portrait, painted in around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII.

It was thought to be lost for more than 400 years. But then in 2024, French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat uncovered the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ “Christ on the Cross” during an inspection of ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

Scholars are set to undertake a "thorough technical and scientific study" of the painting, which was previously attributed to the circle of Spanish artist José de Ribera. Ansorena Last week, the ...

When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...

In 1612 a court in Rome heard the testimony of Artemisia Gentileschi, a 19-year-old, in a case against a well-connected artist called Agostino Tassi. Tassi was her art tutor and her probable future ...