In the historic heart of Naples, where narrow streets preserve centuries of voices, beliefs and contradictions, there is a place in which beauty and unease exist side by side. The Sansevero Chapel is famous throughout the world for the Veiled…
They kneel on stone pavements beneath the Italian sun, surrounded by boxes of colored chalk, broken pastels and clouds of pigment. Slowly, an empty square of road becomes a face, a fold of blue fabric, a golden halo or the…
Three Paintings That Changed Art Forever Caravaggio at San Luigi dei Francesi is not merely one of the great encounters offered by Rome. It is the place where a young, controversial and still relatively unknown painter changed the course of…
ItalyStories.com Gian Lorenzo Bernini, born in Naples in 1598 and active above all in Rome, was the supreme artist of the Baroque age. Sculptor, architect, designer, draftsman, playwright, and master of theatrical imagination, Bernini transformed seventeenth-century Rome into a city…
The Rebel of Light and Shadow ItalyStories.com Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio entered European painting like a blade of light through darkness. Born in Milan in 1571 and associated by name with the Lombard town of Caravaggio, he lived only thirty-eight…