Pomegranate Botanical Art

Pomegranate
Punica granatum L.

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Intimate Scenery of Pomegranate Blossoms

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Intimate scenery of pomegranate Blossoms.
This painting depicts calamus, lily, and pomegranate. The pomegranate is done in cinnabar red, the calamus is done in cyanine blue, and the lily is done in brush and ink. The signature states "Sketched by Lu Zhi, Baoshan, on the Tianzhong Festival of the gengwu year in the Longqing reign," which is the Duanwu Festival of 1570.

Punica granatum L.

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Detail of the garden mural from the triclinium in the House of Livia, Rome.
National Museum of Rome, Palazzo Massimo. ca. 30-20 BC.

Punica granatum L.

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Old Chinese print showing the pomegranate

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The pomegranate is considered a sign of fertility in China

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Girl with a pomegranate

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Madonna of the Pomeganate (detail)
The picture's title is explained by the pomegranate in Mary's hand: this should be understood as symbolizing Christ's Passion,
the wealth of seeds conveying the fullness of Christ's suffering.

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Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Granatäpfel auf einer Fensterbank, dahinter Venedig

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Granatäpfel auf einer Fensterbank, dahinter Venedig

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Fig. ¹ "Pomegranate.' Los Angeles County Museum of Art, China, Late Southern Song dynasty or early Yuan dynasty, Painting, c. 1200-1340, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ² Zhi, Lu. " Intimate Scenery of Pomegranate Blossoms." Wikimedia Commons, Hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper, 1570, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intimate_Scenery_of_Pomegranate_Blossoms_by_Lu_Zhi.jpg. Accessed 29 Aug. 2021.
Fig. ³ Ehret. G.D. "Punica granatum L." Plantae selectae, vol. 8: t. 72, C.J. Trew, G.D. Ehret, 1771, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, U.S.A., Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ⁴ "Punica granatum L." Gottorfer Codex, 1771, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ⁵ "Punica granatum L." Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz, Tafeln, O.W. Thomé, vol. 3: t. 346, www.BioLib.de, 1885, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ⁶ Bessler, B. "Punica granatum L." Hortus Eystettensis, vol. 2: Ordo collectarum arborum et fruticum aestivalium, Basilius Bessler, t. 146, fig. II, Teyler museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, 1620, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ⁷ Bessler, B. "Punica granatum L." Hortus Eystettensis, vol. 2: Ordo collectarum arborum et fruticum aestivalium, Basilius Bessler, t. 144, fig. I, Teyler museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, 1620, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ⁸ Scott, Ian. "Detail of the garden mural from the triclinium in the House of Livia, Rome. National Museum of Rome, Palazzo Massimo. c. 30-20 BC." Flickr, 22 May 2010, (CC BY-SA 2.0), www.flickr.com/photos/ian-w-scott/5148666249/. Accessed 29 Aug. 2021.
Fig. ⁹ "Punica granatum L." Flora Brasiliensis, C. Martius, A.G. Eichler, Urban, vol. 14 (1) : fasicle 18,1, t. 9, 1857, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ¹⁰ Philg88. "Old China print showing the pomegranate." Wikimedia Commons, 2010, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ¹¹ Bouguereau, W.A. "Girl with a pomegranate." Wikimedia Commons, Oil on canvas. Sotheby's, 1875, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ¹² Boticelli, S. "Madonna of the Pomeganate (detail)." Web Gallery of Art, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Tempera on Panel, c. 1487, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org. Accessed 1 Jan. 2015.
Fig. ¹³ JQFW5c2ZLfpmbw. "Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti." Wikimedia Commons, Oil on canvas, 1882, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org. Accessed 23 Feb. 2017.
Fig. ¹⁴ dorotheum.com. "Granatäpfel auf einer Fensterbank, dahinter Venedig." Wikimedia Commons, Watercolor on paper, 1940, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org. Accessed 23 Feb. 2017.

Published 1 Jan. 2015 LR. Last update 29 Aug. 2021 LR