Basket of Fruit

ca. 1620

Not on view

Caravaggio’s powerful still lifes from about 1600 probably inspired Cavarozzi to imagine such a bold composition against a monochrome background. Cavarozzi’s principal patron, Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, led an academy near the Pantheon that advocated the direct study of nature, evident here in, for example, the raking light on the grape leaves’ veins and insect bites on the large quince at center.

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Title: Basket of Fruit
Artist: Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Italian, Viterbo 1587–1625 Rome)
Artist: or Master of the Acquavella Still Life
Date: ca. 1620
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19 1/2 × 26 3/4 in. (49.5 × 67.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of Errol M. Rudman, 2020
Object Number: 2020.263.5
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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