Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture's Appropriation of a Baroque Genius

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - A Self-Perpetuating Myth -- 1 Caravaggio in Context -- The socio-historical context -- How does Caravaggio fit in this context? Key events in Merisi's early life -- Rome and other key events in Caravaggio's life -- Caravaggio's fortune -- 2 Michelangelo Merisi's Lives: The 'Painter as Character' Genre -- Caravaggio pittore maledetto versus Caravaggio the hero of the poor -- The author/painter as character genre -- Michelangelo Merisi and his lives: a case study -- 3 Caravaggio, Crime Fiction, and the Noir -- Mean Streets: Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Margaret Truman: Murder at the National Gallery -- Neil Griffiths: Saving Caravaggio -- Forgery and revenge: Fabio Baldassarri's Il mistero del Caravaggio and Noel Charney's The Art Thief -- When truth is stranger than fiction: Jonathan Harr's The Lost Painting -- Gilda Piersanti's Jaune Caravage -- 4 Caravaggio and Homoerotic Concerns -- Dominique Fernandez's Dans la main de l'ange -- Thom Gunn -- Caravaggio and Derek Jarman -- Samuel M. Steward's The Caravaggio Shawl -- 5 Deleuzian Folds: Michael Ondaatje's and Anthony Minghella's Caravaggio -- David Caravaggio: an artist in disguise -- Key pictorial intertextual references -- Conclusion: Caravaggio and the Neo-Baroque - Some Final Considerations -- Bibliography -- Index