It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge.
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.
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.
A good sized light red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth.
The image is caravaggio s depiction of a wicker basket containing a selection of summer fruit.
The contrast between light and shadow is also much more restrained.
Though it still plays an essential role in the painting.
Basket of fruit is different.
It seems to be the only caravaggio painting with such a light background.
Basket of fruit 1596 by caravaggio.
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.
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.
Generally in less than perfect condition the majority of fruit seems worm eaten and insect predated.
Beneath it is a single bicolored apple shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes probably codling mo.
Caravaggio s basket of fruit is a still life painting that is displayed in the ambrosian library in milan.
The basket is situated on a ledge or shelf with a plain background.
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.
Caravaggio the calling of saint matthew 1600.
The fruit has remained a much debated element of the painting.
The basket contains a selection of summer fruit.