“This is the portrait by Caravaggio that everyone wanted to see for decades,” Thomas Clement Salomon, the director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art, tells the New York Times ...

Several experts said there is credible evidence this painting is ... an original work by Caravaggio," a source from the ministry said, quoted by AFP. Some experts have no doubt whose brushstrokes ...

Gallery director and exhibition co-curator Thomas Clement Salomon said, “It is the Caravaggio painting ... s claims about the painting’s provenance “beyond any doubt.” ...