Italian art, Boy with a Basket of Fruit chiaroscuro oil painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Galleria Borghese Museum, Rome, Italy

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Boy with a Basket of Fruit chiaroscuro oil painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy. The painting dates from the time when Caravaggio, newly arrived in Rome from his native Milan, was making his way in the competitive Roman art world. The model was his friend and companion, the Sicilian painter Mario Minniti, at about 16 years old.

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Size: 4644px × 3729px
Location: Galleria Borghese, Piazzale Scipione Borghese, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy
Photo credit: © Rubens Alarcon / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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