VINCENZO CAMPI

The  Fruttivendola  (greengrocer)  is an oil painting  (145x215 cm) by Vincenzo Campi,of about  1580 and it is in Milan’s  Pinacoteca di Brera . This greengrocer has a moralistic tone because of the grape,  put in evidence by the woman, ha a Christological meaning as a clear    warning to the temptations  of sensuality and  pleasure represented by the ripened fruit.

First of all the subdivision by types and the tidy disposition of fruit is like a scientific classification. The painter give to any earth product a different container: from the metallic dish for the apricots to the big wood basket for grapes, to the interlaced basket for the pears to the ceramic bowl for  the cherries. Moreover the picture does not have as a location  a city or a market and it is a constant characteristic of Flemish art.

1.     La Fruttivendola is a picture by

a)    Caravaggio

b)   Leonardo da Vinci

c)    Michelangelo

d)   Vincenzo Campi

2.    The grape has

a)    A religious meaning

b)   No meaning

c)    An economical meaning

d)   A lot of meaning

3.    In La Fruttivendola

a)    There is a lot of confusion

b)   Every dish contains different products

c)    Fruit has a scientific disposition

d)   Fruit does not appear