Art Genre: Still life. Type: Painting. He is known for creating dramatic paintings with a strong sense of lighting and drama.

It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. February 2017.

Image: Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c.1593, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a controversial painter from Lomardy, Northern Italy. Physical Dimensions: 54,5x67,5 cm. Analysis of ‘Boy with a Basket of Fruit’ by Caravaggio. Caravaggio took a different approach with Basket of Fruit, painting from a "flat" perspective with his eyes lining up with the bottom of the basket. As a realist painter, Caravaggio did not idealize his paintings, instead he captured the very essence of what he saw on the canvas in front of him. For four years, beginning in 1584, Caravaggio was apprentice to Italian Mannerism painter Simone Peterzano. The fruit has remained a much debated element of the painting. This is beautifully clear in his portrayals of the fruit and leaves in the basket, which are so realistic that they have been analyzed by horticultural scientists, who were able to accurately determine the individual cultivars. 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. Medium: Oil. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit: The basket is situated on a ledge or shelf with a plain background.

The basket … contains a great many fruits, all in nearly perfect condition and including a bi-colored peach with a bright red blush; four clusters of grapes — two black, one red, and one “white;” a ripe pomegranate split open, disgorging its red seeds; four figs, two of them dead-ripe, black ones, both split and two light-colored; two medlars; three apples—two red, one blushed and the other striped, and one yellow with a … Creator: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) Date Created: 1597/1600.

Title: Basket of fruit. 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. Imagine for a moment the basket is nothing but a basic cylinder form.

Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit is a still life painting that is displayed in the Ambrosian Library in Milan. X-rays reveal the right end of a frieze of putti and garlands by another artist, possibly Caravaggio's friend Prosperino delle Grottesche, underneath this image. It's challenging to capture the illusion of depth and form from this perspective. The image is Caravaggio's depiction of a wicker basket containing a selection of summer fruit. Basket of Fruit, 1596 by Caravaggio. Details. His work has inspired many modern painters.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, widely known simply as Caravaggio, was born in 1571 in Milan, Italy. The canvas was originally longer, although of the same height.