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. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The contrast between light and shadow is also much more restrained. Basket of fruit is different. Caravaggio the calling of saint matthew 1600.
The canvas was originally longer although of the same height. 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. Basket of fruit is a still life painting by the italian baroque master michelangelo merisi da caravaggio which hangs in the biblioteca ambrosiana milan. A good sized light red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth.
The fruit has remained a much debated element of the painting. It seems to be the only caravaggio painting with such a light background. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The image is caravaggio s depiction of a wicker basket containing a selection of summer fruit.
Though it still plays an essential role in the painting. Beneath it is a single bicolored apple shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes probably codling mo. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit.
Basket of fruit 1596 by caravaggio. The basket is situated on a ledge or shelf with a plain 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 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.