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 ...

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by ...

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 ...

According to new research, Homo erectus, one of our early ancestors, was able to live and thrive in the tough, desert-like areas of Eastern Africa over a million years ago. As the first hominin ...

They also had bigger brains than earlier species, though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going ...

A PAINTING by Italian master Caravaggio, which was credited to an unknown artist and almost auctioned off at a bargain price, has gone on display at Madrid’s Prado museum. Called ‘Ecce Homo ...