[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2146 Tomatoes

[Mark S. Harris]

Elizabeth asked:
>      Has anyone discussed   the produce in the painting *Summer* (painted
> 1563) by Giuseppe Arcimbaldo (1527-1593).  There is an image of it at:
>
> http://www.abcgallery.com/A/arcimboldo/arcimboldo2.html
>
>      The image on my computer screen is harder to see than the 15 year
> old postcard I have of the image.  Above the cherries and below the
> raspberries/blackberries is a fruit that looks like a plum tomato to me,
> albeit a golden one.  I have not seen modern yellow plum tomatoes, and I
> don't  know the shapes of old varieties--I am interested in Northern
> Europe, and am content to think of the tomato as out of period for what I
> do.

Yes, this painting has been discussed here before. There are three
messages about it in this file in the Florilegium. Perhaps you might
want to take a look?

fd-paintings-msg  (14K)  6/ 1/00    Period paintings that show food items.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/fd-paintings-msg.html


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