31 August 2011

The greatest ever painting of a bowl of fruit.

Basket of Fruit (circa 1599), painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610).

It's displayed in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan, Italy.

It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit:

Type: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31 cm × 47 cm (12 in × 19 in)

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