Did you know the boy with the basket of fruit was a male prostitute boyfriend of Caravaggio's?!

And that Caravaggio'd walk around his pitch-dark studio holding up a candle, making his models hold poses for hours, to find the perfect point source of light?!?!

And that he lit many of his paintings from the right (as opposed to the left), which [I kid you not] heightens the seeming contrast between dark and light for people who are used to reading right to left) (so strange that our written language affects the way we look at paintings)?!?!?!