Basket Of Fruit Caravaggio
Caravaggio s basket of fruit is a still life painting that is displayed in the ambrosian library in milan.
Basket of fruit caravaggio. Basket of fruit is a still life painting by the italian baroque master michelangelo merisi da caravaggio which hangs in the biblioteca ambrosiana milan. 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. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. 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.
Basket of fruit 1596 by caravaggio. The image is caravaggio s depiction of a wicker basket containing a selection of summer fruit. 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.
The basket contains a selection of summer fruit. A good sized light red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth. Basket of fruit is different. 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.
The basket contains a selection of summer fruit. It seems to be the only caravaggio painting with such a light background. Beneath it is a single bicolored apple shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes probably codling mo. Generally in less than perfect condition the majority of fruit seems worm eaten and insect predated.
A painting by michelangelo merisi da caravaggio created circa 1599 basket of fruit shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge with an assortment of summer fruits. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The contrast between light and shadow is also much more restrained. The basket is situated on a ledge or shelf with a plain background.