I saw this fresco on the ceiling in l’Abbaye de Saint-Savin. This is God creating night and day. What completely fascinates me is the plant – what is it? Do you know? Do tell me if you think you do.
If you look carefully it seems there is the faded remnant of another one just to the left. I’m assuming that the fact there are three heads to the flower is significant, but does this flower usually grow in such a manner?
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Though they superficially look like fungi, many artists at this time painted trees in a very stylised way. Maybe date palms? Colour may have degraded, so can’t be certain that this is the original colour ( though an art historian of this period might know…)