My visit to the one-room exhibition Caravaggio's "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" in Focusat the Morgan Library & Museum suggests: Yes. The painting is modest in size - a little more than two feet (~61 cm) across - smaller, even, than some of the works that surround it. Its lighting isn't dramatically different from the others. And yet it has this immense gravitational force.
In many instances the importance of these paintings has only recently been recognised, thanks to the enormous amount of research my colleagues have done, working-in some instances for months, even years-with outside scholars to shed new light on their authorship and history. The galleries look stunning, filled with an array of beautiful paintings, each with a fascinating story to tell. They are already working their magic on art lovers from across the globe, and we hope everyone c