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Boy with a Basket of Fruit

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both split and two light-colored; two medlars; three apples—two red, one blushed and the other striped, and one yellow with a russet basin and a scar; two branches with small pears, one of them with five yellow ones with a bright red cheek and the other, half-hidden, with small yellow, blushed fruits. There are also leaves showing various disorders: a prominent virescent grape leaf with fungal spots and another with a white insect egg mass resembling that of the oblique banded leaf roller (
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piece designed to demonstrate the artist's ability to depict everything from the skin of the boy to the skin of a peach, from the folds of the robe to the weave of the basket. The fruit is especially exquisite, and Professor Jules Janick of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at
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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,
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The analysis indicates that Caravaggio is being realistic. By capturing only what was in the fruit basket, he idealizes neither their ripeness nor their arrangement—yet almost miraculously, we are still drawn in to look at it, for the viewer it is very much a beautiful and exquisite subject.
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in 1607, and may therefore date to the period when Caravaggio worked for d'Arpino "painting flowers and fruits" in his workshop; but it may date from a slightly later period when Caravaggio and Minniti had left
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The painting dates from the time when Caravaggio, newly arrived in Rome from his native
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Purdue University, Indiana, has analysed them from a horticulturalist's perspective:
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70 cm × 67 cm (28 in × 26 in)
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to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
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Madonna of Loreto (Madonna dei Pellegrini, Pilgrims' Madonna)
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The British-Canadian band Velcro Hooks open up their video
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Madonna and Child with Saint Anne (Dei Palafrenieri)
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The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus
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Caravaggio
Galleria Borghese
Rome
Italian
Baroque
Caravaggio
Galleria Borghese
Rome
Milan
Mario Minniti
Giuseppe Cesari
Scipione Borghese
Cavalier d'Arpino
The Fortune Teller
Cardsharps
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List of paintings by Caravaggio
"Caravaggio's Fruit"
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Caravaggio's fruit (Professor Jules Janick)
"A Love Song to T. S. Eliot"

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