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Basket of Fruit
by Caravaggio
StyleBaroque
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Italian artist Caravaggio painted this still life of a basket of fruit with radical naturalistic detail, including imperfect and decaying fruit. The work heightened still life to a subject worthy of serious attention.
This is one of the earliest pure still life paintings in Italian art. It hangs at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.
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About Basket of Fruit
Caravaggio painted imperfect, aging fruit, bringing unprecedented realism to still life and elevating the genre.
At the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, where it's one of the most prized works.
It's one of the earliest known independent still life paintings in European art. Caravaggio included overripe and decaying fruit, suggesting the passage of time, a theme central to his Baroque realism.
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