[HN Gopher] An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit ___________________________________________________________________ An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit Author : headalgorithm Score : 69 points Date : 2020-04-19 06:53 UTC (16 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | pvaldes wrote: | > found that the pear in Albrecht Durer's "Madonna and child with | the pear" is actually an apple. | | An apple that quince? :-) | | Look at the blue flower in the hand of the child... | | 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. | | 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: | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-19 23:01 UTC)