Caravaggio The Palette and the Sword TPB (2024 Fantagraphics) comic books
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Published Jan 2025 by Fantagraphics.$13.95
$13.95
Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Milo Manara. Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Milo Manara's passionate and personal tribute to his artistic idol. CARAVAGGIO: THE PALLETTE AND THE SWORD Volume 1 is the first half of Milo Manara's two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute. The two volumes of Caravaggio mark the return of Manara to U.S. readers and the debut of Fantagraphics' new series, The Milo Manara Signature Edition, featuring affordable paperbacks of maestro Manara's internationally acclaimed work. (Volume 2 will follow in Spring 2025.) Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Manara's passionate, personal tribute to his artistic idol, Michelangelo Merisi, whom the world would come to know as Caravaggio. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 64 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.
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Published Aug 2025 by Fantagraphics.$19.99
$19.99
Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Milo Manara. Milo Manaras Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 2, the second half of Manaras epic two-volume biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter, depicts the tragedy of his years on the run for killing a man in a duel in Rome. With a price on his head, Caravaggio flees to Naples, Malta, and Sicily — continuing to paint and desperately hoping his work will earn him a pardon from the pope.Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 1 and Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 2 — the latter available in English for the first time — mark the return of Milo Manara to U.S. readers and the debut of a new series of affordable graphic novels from Fantagraphics of maestro Manaras internationally acclaimed work. This second volume also includes an exquisite portfolio of Caravaggios paintings from the 1600s, created during his exile from Rome. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 64 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.
