Basket of Fruit is a still life painting from around 1599 by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. It shows a wicker basket of summer fruit, including a peach, an apple, a pear, figs, a quince and clusters of grapes, many rendered with visible insect damage and imperfection. Scholars have read the fading, worm-eaten fruit as a meditation on decay and the passing of beauty, and by 1607 the painting was part of Cardinal Federico Borromeo's collection in Milan.
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Year CreatedWikipedia gives the date as c.1599 (circa); no more precise date is recorded in the article. LocationBiblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan, Italy 1 Medium
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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.
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c. 1599
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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.
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