LAVISH FIRST PHOTOS REVEALED FOR MICHELE PLACIDO'S RENAISSANCE DRAMA CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW ON THE FAMOUS 17TH CENTURY PAINTER

  CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW  

REVEALS FIRST PHOTOS

Michele Placido has just finished production on historical drama CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW over in Naples, about the enigmatic and genius Renaissance painter, and today we have the first, rather lavish stills from the

Caravaggio's Shadow will hit cinemas sometime next year

set featuring Riccardo Scamarcio as Caravaggio himself, Louis Garrel as the mysterious Shadow, Isabelle Huppert as the Marquise Costanza Colonna, Micaela Ramazzotti as Lena and Placido in the role of Cardinal del Monte!

     THE STORY OF THE FILM

focuses on the adventurous and controversial life of the great painter from the 1600s, showing the artist as a rebel without a cause, a man of huge talent but above all a rockstar ahead of his time, forced to deal with the

Michele Placido spent four years developing the project

troubling consequences of his dissolute life. Set in 1610, the film will show how Pope Paul V orders the Vatican secret service to investigate Caravaggio. The pontiff must decide whether to grant the clemency for which the painter has

Isabelle Huppert is Marquise Constanza Colonna in the movie

petitioned since being sentenced to death for the murder of a love rival. The Investigator, known as the Shadow, begins the enquiry which will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the artist whose life, or death, lies in his hands.