POMEGRANATE

Pomegranate explores how people throughout history interacted with pomegranates, featuring a cast of historical heads from the Ashur nasirpal to Anne Boleyn, and from Sandro Botticelli to Salvador Dali. Juicy, crunchy, tart: with its multitude of seeds and juice akin to blood, its not hard to see why the pomegranate has so appealed to the imagination. After being held in high esteem in the rituals of the polytheistic religions of the ancient world, the pom-egranate came to be revered in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. This book expl...[Read more]