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Caravaggio's still-life painting of a Basket of Fruit (Canestro di frutta, or Cestino di frutta in Italian) was a gift from Cardinal Del Monte - the painter's first influential patron - to Federico Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan, an avid collector of art who was ultimately responsible for the Ambrosiana Gallery (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana) in Milan where the painting is still housed.
It is not known for certain when Caravaggio (real name Michelangelo Merisi [da Caravaggio]; b. 1573, d. 1610) painted the work, but it is generally dated 1597 or 1601.
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Still-life paintings were a complete novelty at that time, and for many years it was suggested that this small canvas was originally part of a larger painting that perhaps also contained religious figures. However, x-ray examinations have excluded such a possibility.
Interestingly the x-rays also revealed that the canvas had already been used - beneath the basket of fruit there are signs of preparatory drawings for grotesque decorat