Caravaggio, "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" (c. 1593), oil on canvas (all photos Lisa Yin Zhang/ Hyperallergic )Certain artists arrive to us fully formed. Hyperallergic: Why do you think Caravaggio continues to captivate us today? Detail of Caravaggio, "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" (c. 1593), oil on canvasH: Tell me about “Boy with a Basket of Fruit.” What draws you to it? It's the moment when Caravaggio becomes Caravaggio. I’ll put an ivy crown on and call myself Bacchus.” But it’s obviously Caravaggio — and Caravaggio at his least godlike, after spending weeks in the hospital sick with an infection in his leg.