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CARAVAGGIO: Boy Peeling a Fruit

🖼 Boy Peeling a Fruit, c. 1593
Oil on canvas
76 × 64 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft light models a youth's concentrated face as he peels fruit with deliberate care, his hand emerging from shadow. Caravaggio elevates humble domestic labor to dignified subject matter, pioneering genre painting that celebrates ordinary moments with spiritual intensity.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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