The price is among the highest the Italian state has paid for a single work of art, according to the culture ministry ...

The purchase is part of wider plans to prevent major artworks from being bought by private collectors.

Italy has acquired a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million, adding it to Rome’s Palazzo Barberini collection and safeguarding national ...

Italy has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest state investments ever for a single artwork, the country’s Culture Ministry said Tuesday. The ...

Italy buys rare Caravaggio painting for €30 million, calling it ‘a work of exceptional importance’ - The painting, dating from around 1598 depicts Maffeo Barberini, who later became Pope Urban VIII.

MADRID, May 27 (Reuters) - Madrid's Prado Museum unveiled a painting by Italian baroque master Caravaggio on Monday that will go on public display for the first time this week after what the museum ...

MADRIDMADRID — A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work by the Italian Baroque master, Spain’s Prado Museum ...

His paintings unnerve us as they unnerved their Baroque viewers. Caravaggio didn’t draw but painted directly onto the canvas. He invented a dramatic, overpowering chiaroscuro, a spotlit style he used ...

Another bold-name artist is coming to the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte. This time, it’s Baroque master Caravaggio. “Caravaggio | Revolution: Baroque Masterpieces from the Roberto Longhi Foundation” ...