Poor Eve & the tamarillo
Today was one of those gorgeous days we don’t get to enjoy too often here in Glasgow, so I spent the afternoon in my favourite place in town, the Botanic Gardens.
Maybe it’s just my profane sense of humor, but I love how a beautiful marble statue of Eve seems to be looking over her shoulder to the red tamarillo fruits hanging from a Solanum betaceum tree nearby. She seems quite concerned, as if thinking “Should I?? That’s not an apple right, somebody tell me, I need to make sure???!!! Damn it looks juicy, I think I’ll go for it!”
The statue (c.1873-80) is the work of Italian sculptor Scipione Tadolini, main assistant of Antonio Canova, arguably the most celebrated Neoclassical sculptor of the XIX century. Poor Eve has been sitting there in the Kibble Palace eyeing fruits and flowers for 78 years. Somebody give the lassie an apple, she deserves it!