Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Examples of Pomegranates in Painting

The pomegranate is historically significant and this has been reflected in painting. It has significance in the Christian culture, as well as others, and it's symbolism stretches back to Greek mythology even.

Salvador Dali, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, (1944)

http://en.academic.ru/p
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine (1874)
http://www.auburn.edu/~keirscm/britlit/rossetti_proserpine.jpg



Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate (1487)
http://www.ccn.yamanashi.ac.jp/~morita/Subjects/phenomene/IMAGES/boticceli_pomegr.jpg





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