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Art
Caravaggio's "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" in Focus
About This Event
Live event at The Morgan Library & Museum
About Boy with a Basket of Fruit
Boy with a Basket of Fruit is an oil on canvas painting generally ascribed to Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, created c. 1593. It is held in the Galleria Borghese, in Rome.
About the Artist
Caravaggio
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Caravaggio, the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi, shaped early Baroque art with hard-edged realism and stark, directional light. Trained in Lombardy and formed in the competitive world of Rome, he favored working from live models and ordinary bodies rather than ideal types.