Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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Our discussion of Ruoppolo’s grapes found its way to Erika Maul, curator of the German grape collection and manager of the European Vitis database. ((BTW, the brand new and much awaited ECPGR RSS feed tells me this database has recently been improved.)) Many thanks to Helmut Knuepffer for facilitating that process and for providing this …
Our post of a couple of days ago on Ruoppolo’s grapes found its way to an actual grape expert, Anna Schneider of the Istituto di Virologia Vegetale in Italy. I’ve translated her comments below: I did some research on Ruoppolo and saw that he worked in Naples, so it is indeed possible that the grapes …
Remember our discussion of Ruoppolo’s grapes? You know, the ones with the weirdly shaped berries and the confused synonymy? Well, something looking remarkably similar has just turned up in a tweet featuring a photo of a carving from Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site under threat in Syria. The grapes of wrath – beautiful stone …
With thanks to Giuseppe for pointing out another fruit painter, I went looking for Bartolomeo Bimbi’s depiction of our current favourite grape, and found a reasonable version. I reckon that’s it fourth from the right in the third row down. Unfortunately, on the version I found the names of the varieties, which I take to …
Ever seen grapes like the ones in the painting? Just an oddity or widely consumed at the time? That was Michael, who was visiting the Museo de Bellas Artes in Sevilla a few weeks back, talking about Gianbattista Ruoppolo’s “Bodegón con uvas y manzanas.” Ruoppolo did quite a few fruity still lives, but this particular …