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The Fruit Basket or Reversible Head with a Fruit Basket is a c.1590 oil-on-panel still life by the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. It is held in the French & Company collection, in New York.[1] When inverted, it shows an anthropomorphic head by pareidolia. The same painter also produced The Cook and The Gardener.
| The Fruit Basket | |
|---|---|
 The painting inverted | |
| Artist | Giuseppe Arcimboldo |
| Year | c. 1590 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 56 cm × 42 cm (22 in × 17 in) |
| Location | French & Company collection, New York |
Arcimboldo's reversible fruit basket painting is an early example of the fruit still life genre. It may have been the inspiration for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit. It may have also had an influence on Fede Galizia and Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, who would both later painted a number of fruit still lifes.[2]
The painting inverted and the right way up
References
edit- ^ Ferino-Pagden 2007, p. 178.
- ^ Ferino-Pagden 2007, p. 122, 179.
Bibliography
edit- Ferino-Pagden, Sylvia, ed. (2007). Arcimboldo: 1526-1593. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-88-6130-379-9.
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