Basket of Fruit. Basket of Fruit is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.
It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit:.
a good-sized, light-red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth. Beneath it is a single bicolored apple, shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which shows secondary rot at the edge; one blushed yellow pear with insect predations resembling damage by leaf roller; four figs, two white and two purple, the purple ones dead ripe and splitting along the sides, plus a large fig leaf with a prominent fungal scorch lesion resembling anthracnose; and a single unblemished quince with a leafy spur showing fungal spots.
There are four clusters of grapes, black, red, golden, and white; the red cluster on the right shows several mummied fruit, while the two clusters on the left each show an overripe berry. There are two grape leaves, one severely desiccated and shriveled while the other contains spots and evidence of an egg mass.
In the right part of the basket are two green figs and a ripe black one is nestled in the rear on the left. On the sides of the basket are two disembodied shoots: to the right is a grape shoot with two leave
It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit:.
a good-sized, light-red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth. Beneath it is a single bicolored apple, shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which shows secondary rot at the edge; one blushed yellow pear with insect predations resembling damage by leaf roller; four figs, two white and two purple, the purple ones dead ripe and splitting along the sides, plus a large fig leaf with a prominent fungal scorch lesion resembling anthracnose; and a single unblemished quince with a leafy spur showing fungal spots.
There are four clusters of grapes, black, red, golden, and white; the red cluster on the right shows several mummied fruit, while the two clusters on the left each show an overripe berry. There are two grape leaves, one severely desiccated and shriveled while the other contains spots and evidence of an egg mass.
In the right part of the basket are two green figs and a ripe black one is nestled in the rear on the left. On the sides of the basket are two disembodied shoots: to the right is a grape shoot with two leave
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