Botticelli's Pomegranate: A Fruit, the Blood of Christ, and the Unity of the Church
Works and artists Florence Renaissance Sandro Botticelli Tuscany Theater Foundation Uffizi
In the center of a roundel housed in the Uffizi Gallery, a mother offers her child a split pomegranate, its seeds a vivid red verging on purple. This is no ordinary gesture: in 15th-century Florentine religious painting, that fruit carries…
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