''Caravaggio'' is a 2007 Italian television miniseries directed by Angelo Longoni. The film is based on real life events of
Baroque
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fin ...
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Cast
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Alessio Boni
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Life
Boni was born in Sarnico in 1966. He studied theatre at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. The second of three children, Marco is the eldest and Andrea is the youngest brother ...
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Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...
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Elena Sofia Ricci
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Active in film, theater and television, the actress has won major awards in their respective fields in Italy, including three Dav ...
as Costanza Colonna
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Jordi Mollà
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Francesco Maria del Monte
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Claire Keim
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Biography
Keim was born in Senlis, Oise to an architect father and a dentist mother.
She is in a relationship with French footballer Bixente Lizarazu, and lives in S ...
as Fillide Melandroni
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Paolo Briguglia
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Life and career
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Briguglia studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, graduating in 1998. He made his ...
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Mario Minniti
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Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he arrived in Rome in 1593, where he became the friend, collaborator, and model of the key Baroque paint ...
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Benjamin Sadler
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Biography
Sadler was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of a German graphic designer and a British teacher. He lived in Canada until he was five. In 1976 he move ...
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Onorio Longhi
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Born in Viggiù, Lombardy, Longhi began as assistant for his father, and inherited the latter's commission a ...
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Sarah Felberbaum
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Life and career
Born in London to a British mother and an American father of German-Jewish descent, Felberbaum moved to Italy with her family when she was a year old. At 15 she st ...
as Lena
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Maurizio Donadoni
Maurizio Donadoni (born 7 January 1958) is an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Born in Bergamo, Donadoni started his career on stage in the late 1970s, working among others with Luca Ronconi and Gabriele Lavia. He made his film debut in ...
as Ranuccio Tomassoni
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Maria Elena Vandone as
Beatrice Cenci
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Luigi Diberti
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After graduating from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, he first appeared in small theater roles before having his breakout in 1968 with Luca Ronconi's ''L'Orl ...
as
Scipione Borghese
Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese (; 1 September 1577 – 2 October 1633) was an Italian cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini. His legac ...
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Ruben Rigillo as Fabrizio Colonna
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Joachim Bißmeier as Cardinal Gonzaga
References
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2000s Italian television miniseries
Television shows set in Milan
Films scored by Luis Bacalov
Cultural depictions of Caravaggio