100 Caravaggio artworks found/A Chinese artist in crisis

I've been a fan of Caravaggio paintings since seeing several of them at the Museo del Prado in Madrid a couple of years ago. Caravaggio is known as one of history's most tormented painters. He was involved in frequent brawls and vicious beatings and fled Rome after being sentenced to death for killing a love rival. Hailed as the master of the "chiaro-scuro" technique -- the contrast of shadow and light -- he died of fever in exile and was buried in a mass grave. Today 100 newly discovered paintings and sketches by a young Caravaggio will be unveiled. The works, estimated to be worth nearly $900 million, will appear in a 600-page Amazon ebook, the Telegraph reports. They're probably from 1584 to 1588, during Caravaggio's years apprenticed to the painter Simone Peterzano. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9379713/Italian-art-historians-find-100-Caravaggio-paintings.html

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More big news from the Art World concerning China's highest paid artist, Zhang Xiaogang, who is in crisis. As demand explodes for Chinese art, the country's most expensive living painter copes with fragile health....Sotheby's sold his "Bloodline: Big Family No. 1" (below) for $8.4 million last fall in Hong Kong.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304898704577482560576471408.html?mod=googlenews_wsj 

'Bloodline: Big Family No. 1'