Tag: Caravaggio

  • The Last Caravaggio

    This show brings Caravaggio’s last known painting to London, along with documents telling its story, and revealing a little more about the mysterious last months of its troubled and hugely influential creator

  • Artemisia

    Long-known for her autobiography, visceral and violent, yet strongly feminine portrayals of Apocryphal heroines, and her self-portraits in the guises of various martyrs, the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi is finally being celebrated for her full four-decade career as a…

  • Caravaggio-Bernini: The Baroque in Rome

    This is the first major exhibition to pair the greatest painter of the baroque period with its greatest sculptor, along with several of their most accomplished followers. It’s a winning combination

  • Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation

    Tate Britain, London 20 May – 10 August 2014

  • Gustave Doré – Master of Imagination

    Musée d’Orsay, Paris 18 February – 11 May 2014

  • The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 23 June-3 September 2006 The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has generally been insufficiently recognised. This was a brilliant religious, figurative and landscape painter whose influence upon…

  • Caravaggio: The Genius of Rome

    ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS LONDON through April l6th.

  • Caravaggio: A Contemporary View by John Berger, Vol 196 No 998 1983.

    Once I was asked to name my favourite painter. I hesitated, searching for the least knowing, most truthful answer. ‘Caravaggio’. There are nobler painters and painters of greater breadth of vision. There are painters I admire more and who are…