Food and Drink in European Painting, 1400–1800 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/food-and-drink-in-european-painting-1400-1800
In the fifteenth century, artists took increasing inspiration from the culture of antiquity and from the natural world, and began to depict objects such as fruits, sweets, and wine vessels, as well as flora and fauna, in both devotional and secular images.
the Tree of Knowledge from which Eve ate forbidden fruit, causing the downfall of Man
