See a Rare Painting From Old World Master Caravaggio in Dallas This Summer

The Dallas Museum of Art has secured the loan of Caravaggio's masterpiece Martha and Mary Magdalene from the Detroit Institute of Arts for the summer, on view June 23 to Sept. 22.Caravaggio, whose full name was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was at once a bad man (he was accused of murder!) and a great artist. As a result, he rivals Leonardo da Vinci in the popular imagination, and, also like Leonardo, his paintings are very rare outside his native Italy.  Continue reading...