Artwork Replica Boy Bitten By A Lizard - Florence by Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610, Italy) | WahooArt.com

Artworks , Museum Art Reproductions Boy Bitten By A Lizard - Florence By Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

Artworks , Museum Art Reproductions Boy Bitten By A Lizard - Florence By Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Oil
Boy Bitten by a Lizard ((Italian) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro) is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both believed to be authentic, one in the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence, the other in the National Gallery, London. Both are thought to date from the period 1594-1596, but given that it has all the signs of the early works painted in the household of Caravaggio's sophisticated patron Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, and that Caravaggio didn't enter the Cardinal's Palazzo Madama until some time in 1595, the later end of this period seems more likely. The differences between the two versions are infinitesimal. As with all of Caravaggio's early output, much remains conjectural. The model for the boy may have been Mario Minniti, Caravaggio's companion and the model for several other paintings from the period - the bouffant dark curly hair and pursed lips look similar, but in other pictures such as Boy with a Basket of Fruit and The Fortune Teller Mario doesn't look so effeminate. The affected pose may have been the inevitable result of the experiment Caravaggio appears to have been undertaking here: observing and recording acute emotions - surprise and fear - in a situation where real surprise was impossible and where the pose had to be held for a considerable period.