Kill Caravaggio: a hitman on the painter's trail in a new graphic novel

Michelangelo Merisi, known to all as Caravaggio, was one of the most controversial figures of the 17th century: his paintings were so stark and realistic that they scandalized his contemporaries. It is precisely around this theme that Uccidete Caravaggio revolves, a graphic novel written by Salerno-based screenwriter Giuseppe De Nardo, best known for several of his significant “Dylan Dog” stories, and cartoonist Giampiero Casertano, assisted on the color part by colorist Arianna Florean.

In this comic book work, a Roman cardinal, a member of the Inquisition, instructs Pablo Domingo Serrano, a hired assassin, to put himself on the trail of the painter, sentenced to death for murder, and on the run from the Papal States and the papal courts (thanks to the complicity of powerful friends): his aim is to assassinate him and bring the artist’s head to the cardinal. An investigation between Naples, Malta and Sicily will ensue, introducing the killer to Caravaggio’s torments and artistic genius.

Uccidete Caravaggio is an adventure novel that takes the reader to discover Caravaggio’s groundbreaking art through the eyes of this killer who becomes more sensitive and fascinated by his “prey.”

The graphic novel(Sergio Bonelli Editore, 144 pages), was originally published in 2014 and republished in a new edition released on the occasion of the Dentro Caravaggio exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (images of the exhibition here) and available for purchase from September 7.

Photo credit Sergio Bonelli Editore

Kill Caravaggio: a hitman on the painter's trail in a new graphic novel

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