Oil Painting Replica Basket of Fruit, 1596 by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571-1610, Spain) | WahooArt.com

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (i) - 46 x 64 cm - 1596 - (Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, Italy)) (i) Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a painting at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library) in Milan by the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). A wicker basket is teetering on the brink of a ledge in this image. A variety of summer fruits are included in the basket - a large, light-red peach on a stem with wormholes in the leaves that resemble Oriental fruit moth damage (Orthosia hibisci). A single bicolored apple with two insect entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which has secondary rot at the edge; one blushed yellow pear with insect predations resembling damage by a kind of leaf roller (Archips argyospita); two white, four figs and two purple—the purple ones are dead ripe and are splitting along the sides, plus a large fig-like leaf with a prominent vein resembling a fungal lesion, anthracnose (Glomerella cingulata) and a singular quince, which stood unblemished along with a leaf-like spur with fungal discoloration. There are four grape clusters: black, red, golden, and white; the red cluster on the right has multiple mummied fruit, while the two clusters on the left each have an overripe berry. Two grape leaves are seen, one of which is extremely dehydrated and withered, and the other of which has spots and signs of an egg mass. Two green figs are tucked in the right portion of the basket, while a ripe black one is hidden in the back on the left. Two disembodied shoots hang from the basket's sides: a grape shoot with two leaves on the right, both displaying acute insect predation mimicking grasshopper feeding, and a floating spur of quince or pear on the left.