Sexual intrigue, violence, conspiracy and criminal activity come to light as critic Andrew Graham-Dixon looks into a 400-year-old murder puzzle. In July 1610,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , the most famous painter of his age, died in mysterious circumstances. Having taken a life in a street fight four years earlier and been exiled from Rome, was Caravaggio a marked man? Graham-Dixon's investigations take him from the Italian capital to Naples and on to Malta and also bring him face to face with some of the art world's most profoundly spiritual paintings.
Director Roger Parsons ; Series editor Basil Comely