Caravaggio

United Kingdom, 1986

Film
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An imaginary biopic of the Italian painter who died in 1610. Caravaggio was the last, perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most controversial painter of the Italian Renaissance. While Caravaggio’s paintings reflect an increasingly profound and original awareness, his private life was fraught with prostitutes, brawls, duels, arrests and libel cases, culminating in 1606 with a murder. Caravaggio’s bisexuality, his propensity for violence, and his scorn for court conventions made him the scoundrel of the Italian aristocracy.

Credits

production company

BFI

producer

Sarah Radclyffe

director
Duration

01:33:00:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1986

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324913

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Italian

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Homosexuality in motion pictures

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

People → Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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