Never before been seen Caravaggio masterpiece on display in London.
24 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Caravaggio’s masterpiece, which has never before been seen in public in the UK, on display from Wednesday
Tag: Caravaggio
Caravaggio (1571–1610, Milan, Italy) electrified Baroque painting with a realism that felt both raw and divine. Using radical chiaroscuro, he staged biblical scenes as confrontations of flesh and shadow—figures lit by a single, urgent beam that reveals every bruise, wrinkle, and tremor. His subjects, drawn from the streets as much as scripture, collapse the sacred and the everyday into a single charged moment. Turbulent, visceral, and unmistakably human, Caravaggio’s work reshaped the drama of painting, leaving an influence that still pulses through contemporary vision.
Wallace Collection to display Caravaggio’s masterpiece for the first time in the UK
24 July 2025 • Mark Westall
Victorious Cupid (1601-02) is a major loan from the Gelmäldergalerie in Berlin.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in July
5 July 2024 • Tabish Khan
Michelangelo, barbed wire, Caravaggio, heat vision and sculpture.
The Top 5 Exhibitions and Museums to see in Milan
17 May 2024 • Tabish Khan
Conceptual art, Caravaggio, a hangar, Leonardo da Vinci and ancient history.
National Gallery to display Caravaggio’s last painting in new exhibition.
14 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Opening this week the National Gallery will display Caravaggio’s last painting, not seen in the UK for nearly 20 years
‘Beyond Caravaggio’ and Battistello Caracciolo at Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
17 August 2022 • Lee Sharrock
During a recent trip to Naples, I visited the stunning Capodimonte Museum and saw two exhibitions which are closely related: ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ (‘Oltre Caravaggio’): a new tale of painting in Naples’,
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #42: The Birth of Value Out of the Spirit of Experts
6 November 2014 • daniel barnes
Sotheby’s has been sued over the misattribution of a painting which experts now say is a genuine Caravaggio
Art news round-up – Art Basel, BP Portrait Award, Caravaggio, David Lynch and Anish Kapoor
20 June 2011 • Rachel Bennett
In the week the art world had reason to be optimistic, David Lynch opens surrealist salon based on Mullholland Drive’s club silencio, Anish Kapoor scuppers British Council plans in China, climate activists stage a protest of their own, the apps battle it out at Basel and a new Caravaggio turns up 400 years after the artist’s death.