Keywords:
plant phenology, painting, artworksAbstract
Can we scientifically extract valid information from artworks depicting plants? Taking as an example the study of plant phenology, we will see which limitations and obstacles we face, as well as some cases in which science and art may shed light on one another e.g., in Minoan frescoes painted 4000 years ago, or in the Hungarian “Book of Vines” that has been illustrated continually for nearly three centuries.
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