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An Artist Captures Caravaggio’s Film Noir World

Milo Manara fuses the color and sensationalism of Caravaggio’s paintings with the gaudy and vibrant tones of comic books, showing that the highs and lows of the artist’s life are the palette of his intense sensibility.

Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, circa 1621.
Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, circa 1621. Via Wikimedia Commons

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