Where Is Basket of Fruit? Museum Location

Q: Why is this painting important?

Caravaggio painted imperfect, aging fruit, bringing unprecedented realism to still life and elevating the genre.

Q: Where can I see it?

At the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, where it's one of the most prized works.

Q: Why is this still life significant?

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.

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.

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.

Basket of Fruit

Where to See It

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John the Baptist

Young Sick Bacchus

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

The Entombment of Christ

Also at Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Automobile

Christ Crowned with Thorns

The infant Jesus with a Lamb

Petrarch's Virgil (title page)

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

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