Caravaggio - Still Life with Flowers and Fruit 1601
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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit 1601
105x184cm oil/canvas
Borghese Gallery, Rome, Italy
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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Caravaggio has justly been credited as the father of Roman still-life painting, a genre which was in its infancy in the early 17th century. Although Caravaggio very frequently included still-life elements in his works, only two independent still lifes from his hand have been identified to date. These are the Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge and the Basket of Fruit at the Ambrosiana in Milan. Because of both the extraordinary virtuosity of its execution and the complexity of meaning suggested by its composition, scholars have referred to the Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge as a "capital picture for the artist" and a "masterpiece of still life."