Plum leaves
Caravaggio "Basket of Fruit" c.1597
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas,
46 cm × 64.5 cm (18 in × 25.4 in)
Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan.
Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Caravaggio "Basket of Fruit" c.1597
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas,
46 cm × 64.5 cm (18 in × 25.4 in)
Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan.
Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.