A ripe melon sits quarter consumed on a delicate porcelain plate, a small snail tempting its approach toward the unattended morsel of sweetness. In Giovanna Garzoni’s scientifically exacting Baroque still life, rich with sexual innuendo, fruit claims its place as allegorical temptation. Send innocently to the naturalist, or subversively to the wandering erotic.Courtesy of The Palantine Gallery
