Boy with a Basket of Fruit

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Boy with a Basket of Fruit is an early Baroque oil painting by Caravaggio depicting a sensuous young man holding an abundant basket of fruit, notable for its dramatic realism and detailed still-life elements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque painting ⓘ
oil painting ⓘ
painting ⓘ
artHistoricalPeriod Italian Baroque ⓘ
artist Caravaggio ⓘ
artisticStyle early Baroque ⓘ
cataloguedAs an early Roman period work by Caravaggio ⓘ
collection Galleria Borghese ⓘ
surface form: Borghese Collection
countryOfOrigin Italy ⓘ
creator Caravaggio ⓘ
depicts apples ⓘ
basket of fruit ⓘ
figs ⓘ
grapes ⓘ
leafy foliage ⓘ
peaches ⓘ
pear ⓘ
pomegranates ⓘ
still life ⓘ
young man ⓘ
genre portrait ⓘ
still life ⓘ
hasArtisticFocus combination of figure and still life ⓘ
hasColorPalette earth tones ⓘ
warm tones ⓘ
hasPerspective three-quarter view of the boy ⓘ
inception c. 1593 ⓘ
late 16th century ⓘ
influencedBy Lombard naturalism ⓘ
Northern Italian still-life traditions ⓘ
languageOfTitle Italian ⓘ
locatedIn Italy ⓘ
Rome ⓘ
location Galleria Borghese ⓘ
medium oil on canvas ⓘ
oil paint ⓘ
movement Baroque ⓘ
notableFor detailed still-life elements ⓘ
dramatic realism ⓘ
sensuous depiction of a youth ⓘ
orientation vertical ⓘ
originalTitle Boy with a Basket of Fruit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Ragazzo con canestro di frutta
partOf Caravaggio ⓘ
surface form: Caravaggio's early works in Rome
subjectPossiblyIdentifiedAs Mario Minniti ⓘ
theme abundance ⓘ
naturalism ⓘ
sensuality ⓘ
usesTechnique chiaroscuro ⓘ
realistic modeling of light and shadow ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Caravaggio → notableWork → Boy with a Basket of Fruit ⓘ
Galleria Borghese → hasCollectionItem → Boy with a Basket of Fruit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio
Boy with a Basket of Fruit → originalTitle → Boy with a Basket of Fruit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ragazzo con canestro di frutta