6/14/10

Poor Man's Acid




"The canvas depicts the titular deities lounging in a meadow. Venus looks forward while Mars lies beside her, apparently asleep...Recently, however, art historian David Bellingham came to a different conclusion. He noticed that Botticelli painted a fruit in the bottom right-hand corner of his canvas that looks a lot like datura stramonium, a plant that's also known as 'poor man's acid.'"

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