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She's Not an Art Historian. She's a 'Fruit Detective'
The full story includes all kinds of interesting nuggets, including Dalla Ragione's discovery that a fruit depicted in a Giovanni Bellini painting known as Madonna of the Pear actually depicts a ...
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Why do great artists paint food? Two critics hash it out.
We looked at six iconic paintings and prints, beginning with a curious “feast of the gods” by the Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini and ending with a harrowing image of hunger from one of ...