Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For most of its existence, “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”, the painting visiting from Italy to star as The ...

LONDON — Darkness … light and dark … light and dark in combination … chiaroscuro. These words sprang to mind the moment I stepped into Gallery 46 of the National Gallery. Why? Because the gallery ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, about 1603-4, Oil on canvas. The Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri ...

In promoting “Caravaggio 2025,” a landmark exhibition bringing together 24 paintings by the beloved Baroque rogue Caravaggio (1571–1610), Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini ...

Boy Bitten by Lizard is among Caravaggio's most famous paintings. It features a provocatively dressed young boy recoiling in horror as a small lizard concealed within a pile of fruit bites his ...

The National Gallery’s powerful exhibition about the artist and his followers shows a man who could share his genius The shadowed eyes of Caravaggio’s Saint John the Baptist (painted 1603–4) won’t ...

CARAVAGGIO'S 'The Taking of Christ', which has hung in the National Gallery of Ireland for 10 years, is only a copy, experts now claim. They say they have discovered the real painting in Rome. Maria ...

Revered as a worker of miracles, reviled as a violent offender, Caravaggio became one of the most influential painters in Europe. Now a major new exhibition will give his followers the recognition ...

Hannah Furness is Royal Editor for the Telegraph. She has been writing about the Royal family for a decade: interviewing, analysing, and reporting on the monarchy's biggest moments. Hannah Furness is ...

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