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