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Subject·Fruit✕clear
Basket of Fruit
Still life · Baroque

Basket of Fruit

Caravaggio
1599 · Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy

The leaves are curling and worm-eaten and the fig has burst. Caravaggio painted the rot as carefully as the ripeness and called it enough.

★ 7.3