Fruit and Flowers

Art Historical Context

Orsola Maddalena Caccia's *Fruit and Flowers* (. 1630) is a captivating still life in oil on canvas, measuring 30 × 39 inches, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art European Paintings department. Painted during the early Baroque era in northern Italy, this work showcases Caccia's mastery of naturalistic detail, rendering luscious apples, vibrant tulips, and other fruits with remarkable precision and lifelike texture. As a rare female artist of her time—born into the prominent Caccia family of painters in Moncalvo—she contributed to the rising popularity of still life as a respected genr...