Despite a short life marred by brawls, arrests and even murder, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as ...

The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture between the early 17th and mid-18th century ... notes that late-16th-century ...

London Drawing explore the works of 17th-century Italian paintings to create contemporary tableaux to inspire your life ...

Junior Culture Minister Vittorio Sgarbi is also a renowned art critic ... An Italian junior culture minister has been accused of possessing and exhibiting a stolen 17th Century painting, which ...

Prosecutors are investigating allegations Mr Sgarbi, a renowned art critic, stole and modified a 17th-Century ... Baroque master Caravaggio - used to be displayed in a castle in the northern ...