The Italian painter Caravaggio (1573-1610) depicted insolent boys and rough peasants in the guise of Roman gods and Christian saints. They are often portrayed as if emerging out of darkness, with part...
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Howard Hibbard's Caravaggio is an insightful look into the troubled mind and life of one of the most discussed artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Hibbard immediately expands...
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An Italian art restorer said she has identified a painting long thought to be a copy of a Caravaggio masterpiece, "St. Jerome Writing," as an authentic work of the Baroque master.But the announceme...
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Rembrandt is getting better with age. Four hundred years after his birth, he's drawing more people than ever to his native country _ for everything from art exhibits to walking ...
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A few years back, Robert Hughes, former art critic for Time magazine and Goya biographer, wrote that sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) was America’s greatest living artist, and damned if Mr. ...
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Vanessa Del Rio made her last film 20 years ago. Yet people who weren’t even born then approach the 55-year-old actress on the street and tell her how much her movies have meant to them. Thi...
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Old School, on view at Zwirner & Wirth. Panoramic Landscape with Travelers (ca. 1600-1625) may not qualify as a signature work, but it’s a doozy all the same. Working in miniat...
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Just five short years ago, Marco Perego, the Italian-born artist who recently had his first New York solo show, was washing dishes in Spanish Harlem. It’s a part of his story that he likes ...
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A sprawling abstract artwork greets visitors to the 37th-floor conference center of the high-powered law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Painted directly on a wide, curved wall with...
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A sprawling abstract artwork greets visitors to the 37th-floor conference center of the high-powered law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Painted directly on a wide, curved wall wit...
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Caravaggio
Howard Hibbard's "Caravaggio"
Art restorer claims Caravaggio find
