Caravaggio

July 26, 2016
26 July is the Feast Day of Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary and patron saint of mothers, children, and homemakers.

July 18, 2016
Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio probably died on this day in 1610, aged 38.18 July is taken as the date of his death on the basis of what a poet friend of the artist later reported, but the dramatic circumstances under which the event occurred have been shrouded in mystery ever since.

July 8, 2016
Artemisia Gentileschi was born 8 July 1593 in Rome.

June 22, 2016
Now Open: Caravaggio and the Painters of the North at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza For those tantalized by tenebrism: a fantastic new exhibition, entitled “ Caravaggio and the Painters of the North ,” just opened yesterday (21 June) at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain.

April 12, 2016
Caravaggio’s Newest Controversy: Another Judith?

January 25, 2016
January 25 is the feast day of the conversion of Saint Paul.

January 22, 2016
Fan Favorite Art Fact File: Caravaggio and The Seven Works of Mercy baroqueart recently reached out to us with an image of Caravaggio’s compelling composition, The Seven Works of Mercy , so we are featuring a discussion of this work in this, our first “Fan Favorite Art Fact File.” Thanks for the suggestion!

December 13, 2015
13 December is the Feast of St. Lucy of Syracuse.

December 12, 2015
The culmination of a Caravaggisto: Bartolomeo Manfredi died 12 December 1622 in Rome.

November 15, 2015
Danielle Carrabino , Associate Research Curator in European Art at the Harvard Art Museums, was the recipient of a 2014 IAS Research & Publication Grant , which she used to purchase image rights for her book, Caravaggio and the Caravaggesque in Sicily , currently in progress.