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Boy with a Basket of Fruit c.1593 is a painting generally ascribed to Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio currently in the Galleria Borghese Rome. 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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