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 of their faces and bodies strongly illuminated....

SAVALL Lachrimæ Caravaggio * Jordi Savall (gambe), cond; Ferran Savall (voc); Riccardo Manasi (violon); Andrew Lawrence-King (arpa doppia); Xavier Puertas (violone); Le Concert des Nations; Hespèrion XXI * ALIA VOX 9852 (77:41) At first glance-a cover painting of the Virgin Mary grieving over...

THE only dull thing about The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623, the current exhibition at the Royal Academy, is its title. It is a stupendous and, on a first visit, stupifying display of over 140 pictures by fifty artists. After two visits one's thoughts...

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 announcement this week by Roberta Lapucci _ who studied the painting for six...

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 tours to a musical. The...

A book report that discusses Howard Hibbard's "Caravaggio" and also Gian Lorenzo Bernini, another artist of the Catholic church.