Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Beneath a famous Titian painting, researchers have uncovered a portrait of an “unknown professional man.” The ...

"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to detect, through the cracks, the existence of different pi ...

Because the one thing this isn’t is a modern phenomenon. Case in point: the story of Caravaggio. This Italian painter is known as the ‘Godfather of the Baroque’ movement. His skill with depicting ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin. The feature is reflected in the proposed name for the species, revealed by Bae and Wu ...

Masterpieces by Baroque master Caravaggio to go on display at Palazzo Barberini in Rome from 7 March until 6 July. An exhibition hailed as among the most important and ambitious showcases ever of ...