# A Young Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 63 x 50 cm ## Commentary The painting, showing the half-length figure of a young man, reflects the influence of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/caravagg/07/40baptis.html'\)" href="/html/c/caravagg/07/40baptis.html">Caravaggio's St John the Baptist,</a> painted in Naples. However, the youth's air of coarseness and his enticing smile seem far removed from a religious representation, and these qualities would seem instead to suggest a figure of Bacchus. The painting attests to Caracciolo's prominent role among the Caravaggesque painters at the heart of the Neapolitan School. ## Related artworks - [Christ and Caiaphas]() - [Lamentation of Adam and Eve on the Dead Abel]() - [Liberation of St Peter]() - [Noli me tangere]() - [Salome]() - [Scenes from the Life of St Januarius]() - [Sleeping Cupid]() - [St Onophrius]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()