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CARAVAGGIO: Basket of Fruit

🖼 Basket of Fruit, c. 1597
Oil on canvas
31 × 47 cm
Milan, Italy

Golden light illuminates overripe fruit spilling from a wicker basket—grapes, apples, and leaves rendered with sculptural detail and subtle decay. Caravaggio's revolutionary still life elevates humble produce to monumental status, establishing fruit painting as a serious artistic subject and pioneering dramatic chiaroscuro in the genre.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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