Tag: the apple in western art history

  • Art Inspired by Nature: The Apple of Our Eye…

    Lord Fredrick Leighton, The Garden of the Hesperides, 1892 This week’s topic on The Gardener’s Eden is heirloom apples. So in keeping with this theme, today’s edition of ‘Art Inspired by Nature’ focuses on the apple in Western art. A fruit of temperate regions throughout the world, the apple has been cultivated by humans since prehistoric times. Malus sieversii, […]

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