In this connexion we may think of the importance of the Lombards, the Leonardeschi, and the Venetians for contemporary northern painting.

There are good reasons to think that Caravaggio admired the renaissance art of the Leonardeschi. For this Boy peeling fruit, he may have been thinking specifically of the famous Flora that was painted around 1510 by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo's most faithful Milanese students and indeed his legal heir.

In the first half of the sixteenth century, only the leonardeschi — those painters who undergo the influence of Leonardo and his works — correspond to such needs.

Leonardeschi

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