Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal Volume 6 | Issue 2 Article 6 July 2019 Symbolic Seeds: An Analysis of Pomegranate Usage in Selected Artworks of the Past and Present Hannah Spry University of Minnesota Morris Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/horizons Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Spry, Hannah (2019) "Symbolic Seeds: An Analysis of Pomegranate Usage in Selected Artworks of the Past and Present," Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. Available at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/horizons/vol6/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal by an authorized editor of University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Spry: Symbolic Seeds Symbolic Seeds: An Analysis of Pomegranate Usage in Selected Artworks of the Past and Present Hannah Spry Capstone in Art History 2019 University of Minnesota Morris Published by University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well, 2019 1 Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal, Vol. 6, Iss. 2 [2019], Art. 6 Abstract for “Symbolic Seeds: An Analysis of Pomegranate Usage in Selected Artworks of the Past and Present” The image of the pomegranate has been used in works by many artists of different periods such as Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Pomegranate (1485), Rachel Ruysch’s Fruit and Flowers (1716), Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine (1874), and Salvador Dalí’s Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee (1944).