This Baroque bad boy also produced some of the most compelling paintings in the history of art. His dramatic chiaro-scuro lighting and dynamic compositions broke forcefully away from the balanced, ...

Caravaggio, "Death of the Virgin" (c. 1601–06), oil on canvas, 12 1/10 x 8 feet, held at the Louvre Museum (image via Wikimedia Commons) When the water-logged, bloated corpse of the drowned Maddalena ...

Amidst the deeply-textured surface of Julian Schnabel’s dark canvas, the face of Goliath is revealed, a reworking of Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath. The piece is a direct result of ...

Caravaggio famously painted various biblical scenes, such as the beheadings of John the Baptist, Holofernes and Goliath. Though the artist did not meet such a violent demise in the early 17th century, ...