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Caravaggio is a 1986 British historical drama film directed by Derek Jarman. The film is a fictionalised retelling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio . It is Tilda Swinton 's film debut.
Caravaggio is a 2007 Italian television miniseries directed by Angelo Longoni. The film is based on real life events of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Davide Stanzione in Best Movie assigns the film 3.3 stars out of 5 and speaks of it as: "A surprising, bruised and sensual film, which manages to reproduce the works of Caravaggio within the visual fabric of the images and restores, with more accursed vigor than you stumble, the torrid demons of a boundless artist, torn between the torment of the body and the ecstasy of the sacred".
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles. [2]
The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de La Tour, c. 1620–1640.. The painting shows an expensively-dressed but unworldly boy playing cards with another boy. The second boy, a cardsharp, has extra cards tucked in his belt behind his back, out of sight of the mark but not the viewer, and a sinister older man is peering over the dupe's shoulder and signaling to his young accompl
A nod was made to the finding of The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio in the film Ordinary Decent Criminal starring Kevin Spacey. The Hands of Caravaggio, an album from 2001 by electro-acoustic improvisation group M.I.M.E.O. was inspired by the painting.
Caravaggio may also refer to: Caravaggio, Lombardy, Italy, a comune in the province of Bergamo; Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499 – 1543), painter best known for his now-vanished paintings on the facades of Roman houses (unrelated to the above) Caravaggio, an Italian film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
The Age of Caravaggio: an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 5-April 14, 1985, and at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. New York, Milan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Electa. ISBN 0-87099-382-8. Hilaire, Michel (1995). Caravage, le sacré et la vie. Paris: Herscher. ISBN 2-7335-0251-4. Longhi, Roberto ...