A rose and sprig of jasmine inside a glass vase beside some cherries are placed prominently in the foreground in Boy Bitten by a Lizard (Credit: The National Gallery, London) Sat 5 Jan 2002 15.42 EST Boy Bitten by a Lizard Caravaggio for sale, the price is only 5%-20% of the retailing prices at galleries in your city! Boy Bitten by a Lizard ((Italian) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro) is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. Slatkes sees the "impudent finger" as strictly a reference to sexuality and lust. Boy bitten by a Lizard Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. (See Slatkes, "Caravaggio's 'Boy Bitten by a Lizard,'" Print Review 5 (1975): 149-153.) The painting is hand-painted by an experienced artist in MUSEUM QUALITY (80-90% likeness to the original). Handmade art reproductions of Boy Bitten by a Lizard Caravaggio are available to be custom made as oil painting or other art forms. In the foreground is a magnificent still life of fruit, with a rose and sprig of jasmine in a glass vase. For the first time, a fleeting emotion of the moment is represented, much like a photograph taken suddenly, capturing that unrepeatable instant between surprise and pain. Use only Eco-friendly and artist-grade oil … Bite (2) Boy (993) Cherry (47) Flower (3,334) Fruit (994) Leaf (1,681) Lizard (15) Pain (15) Rose (617) Vase (1,360) You can help us tag artworks on Tagger. Title: Boy bitten by a lizardAuthor: CaravaggioDate: 1595-96Music: Nils Frahm - Said and Done It is an elegant artwork for home, hotel, cafe, office wall decoration. The painting is created in method of traditional oil painting. “Boy Bitten by a Lizard” exists in two versions – one in Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence, the other in National Gallery in London. As it can be said from the title, the painting portrays a boy who just got bitten by a tiny lizard. Both are believed to be painted in the period 1594-1596. Boy bitten by a lizard is one of artworks by Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. Boy Bitten by a Lizard 1594-96 Oil on canvas 25 5/8 x 20 1/2 in (65 x 52 cm) Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi, Florence . The tags above come from the public, and also from an image recognition project run by the Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford. Artwork analysis, large resolution images, user comments, interesting facts and much more. One of Caravaggio’s biographers wrote that “he also painted a boy bitten by a lizard emerging from flowers and fruits; you could almost hear the boy scream, and it was done meticulously.” Boy Bitten by a Lizard c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 66 x 52 cm Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi, Florence: Two almost identical examples of this composition exist (the other in the National Gallery, London). 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