[Sca-cooks] olives vs. avocados

[Nick Sasso]

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> Huh? How can you mistake an olive for an avocado? That sounds
> like an
> awfully small avocado or an really large olive. Or was there nothing
> nearby to figure out the scale from? Or have avocados been
> bred to be
> much bigger since the Middle Ages? Where did avocados come from and
> when? They aren't a New World plant?
>
> Stefan
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It is my experience that many early medieval and even later paintings like
in illuminations the Sanitatis lack a good sense of perspective.  Hard to
get a feel for size relative to other things based on depth . . . since they
didn't include such variance in the paintings and drawings until later, I
guess.

niccolo difrancesco