It's been a big week in art... with Jim Pavlidis

IN HIS LANDMARK STUDY FROM 1971, The Food of Italy, Waverley Root divided that nation into 19 distinct culinary regions. The book is a classic, its insights and prose recipes still tantalizing four decades later, but it contains a major oversight.

Inside the restaurant on the Italian Upper

In spite of a life that was brief and often rowdy, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio changed the face of painting. Rejecting the idealized and decorous classicism of his predecessors, he dramatized his compositions with his use of vivid lighting and ...

For instance, in his painting, The Incredulity of St. Thomas, reportedly his most copied work, Caravaggio portrays Christ baring his body and guiding the hand of a surprised Thomas to touch the wound on his side. This is a rendering of a scene in ...

KIEV, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - The recovery of The Taking of Christ or The Kiss of Judas by Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio is one of the main achievements of the Ukrainian Interpol offie, its chief Vasily Nevolya told a news conference in Kiev ...

Arts & Exhibits newsletter E-mail * do not change Contact Email Contact Email2 Contact Url Subscribe to Blog Remember my Info It's hard to believe that the famous 17th century painting The Incredulity of Saint-Thomas now on view at Saint-Antoine ...

Palace of Venaria exhibition features 30 works (By Sandra Cordon) (ANSA) - Turin, May 14 - A Caravaggio masterpiece will be a highlight of a new exhibition of works by one of his followers from southern Italy's Calabria region. "Between Caravaggio ...

Caravaggio was damned and cursed until the end, so that he ended up the victim of a conspiracy and was murdered by the emissaries of the Knights of Malta in Palo, today known as Ladispoli. This is the new thesis put forward by Vincenzo Pacelli, ...

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