Caravaggio s basket of fruit is a still life painting that is displayed in the ambrosian library in milan.
Basket of fruit caravaggio.
The basket contains a selection of summer fruit.
Generally in less than perfect condition the majority of fruit seems worm eaten and insect predated.
The fruit has remained a much debated element of the painting.
Caravaggio cut this end of the frieze off turned the canvas upside down primed it painted the still life on it and then added the background.
Teetering on the edge of the picture space the basket seems in danger of falling out of the painting and into the viewer s space.
The canvas was originally longer although of the same height.
The contrast between light and shadow is also much more restrained.
It seems to be the only caravaggio painting with such a light background.
X rays reveal the right end of a frieze of putti and garlands by another artist possibly caravaggio s friend prosperino delle grottesche underneath this image.
Caravaggio the calling of saint matthew 1600.
It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge.
Basket of fruit is different.
Beneath it is a single bicolored apple shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes probably codling mo.
The basket is situated on a ledge or shelf with a plain background.
A good sized light red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth.
The basket contains a selection of summer fruit.
Basket of fruit 1596 by caravaggio.
It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge.
Basket of fruit is a still life painting by the italian baroque master michelangelo merisi da caravaggio which hangs in the biblioteca ambrosiana milan.
Basket of fruit c 1599 is a still life painting by the italian baroque master michelangelo merisi da caravaggio 1571 1610 which hangs in the biblioteca ambrosiana ambrosian library milan.