[HN Gopher] An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit
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       An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit
        
       Author : headalgorithm
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2020-04-19 06:53 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | pvaldes wrote:
       | > found that the pear in Albrecht Durer's "Madonna and child with
       | the pear" is actually an apple.
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       | An apple that quince? :-)
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       | Look at the blue flower in the hand of the child...
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       | She need to look at the picture in its own cultural and symbolic
       | context. Quince, or pear quince, is a fruit associated with
       | fertility
        
         | ginko wrote:
         | Yeah, came to mention that that looks more like a quince.
        
       | montroser wrote:
       | I've often thought while eating avocados or dates or olives, how
       | different it would be if they didn't exist. There are some fruits
       | that are so uniquely distinct.
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       | And then I wonder how much we're missing out on fruits lost long
       | ago. Like, what if there could have been something else so
       | wonderful as an avocado, in its completely own other way?
        
         | burfog wrote:
         | We lost an herb:
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
        
       | webwielder2 wrote:
       | Considering the human grotesqueries on display in early
       | Renaissance paintings, I'd be wary about fruit being rendered
       | accurately.
        
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