Rediscovered Caravaggio masterpiece to go on show at Madrid's Museo del Prado
Madrid’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting which almost sold for the price of a Macbook at auction is in fact a long..
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Madrid’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting which almost sold for the price of a Macbook at auction is in fact a long..