Il canestra di frutta di caravaggio biography
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Boy with basket of fruit
Merisi Michelangelo called Caravaggio
(Milan 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610)
The canvas comes from the group of works confiscated in 1607 from Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavalier d'Arpino, accused by Paul V's emissaries of illegal possession of firearms. In order to gain his release, the painter was forced to offer his picture gallery to the Apostolic Chamber, donated shortly after by Paul V to his nephew Scipione Borghese, presumed mastermind behind the planned theft.
The work dates back to the period in which Michelangelo Merisi was working in the workshop of the artist from Arpino. It shows a young man, in a three-quarter pose, holding a basket full of autumn leaves and fruits, such as apples and bunches of grapes, which have nature's typical imperfections.
With this canvas the artist demonstrated his ability to explore nature with a profound capacity for mimesis, devoid of aesthetic interpretations. In fact, the painting is admirable proof of representation from real life. His work in this direction reached its most mature phase with the isolated perfection of the Canestra di frutta [Basket of Fruit], painted for Cardinal Federico Borromeo (Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana).
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Rome, Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavalier d'
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Caravaggio, life, works, style and novelties of the great Michelangelo Merisi
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Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio was one of the greatest and most influential painters in art history. The life, major works, and innovations introduced by the great Lombard artist.
Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610) is one of the greatest painters in art history. Early in his career he left Milan, his hometown, and moved to Rome, where he worked for Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte and other important patrons. Because of his easily irritable and violent temperament, he was the protagonist of a series of negative events, including a murder that, from 1606, forced him to leave Rome and to move continually, on the run, first to Naples, then to Malta, then to Sicily and Naples again: from here he left with the hope of returning to Rome, but he fell ill and died on the beach at Porto Ercole.
What was Caravaggio’s greatness and importance within art history? Art historian Vittorio Sgarbi, who has devoted many popular works to the Lombard artist, says in the introduction of his book Il punto di vista del cavallo: Caravaggio (2014, Bompiani editore) that Caravaggio is great "Beca
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Caravaggio (Italian, 1571 – 1610)
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
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