Sorgenti dell’ulivo, olive tree springs series #2

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas. Size: 33 W x 42 H x 0.2 D cm

The olive tree and oil in the thoughts and words of poets: from D’Annunzio to Lorca, from Neruda to Montale

A thousand-year-old plant that has inspired in antiquity as well as in modernity. Its historical and landscape value can also be recovered with some good reading.

An olive branch, carried in the beak of a dove, announced to Noah the end of the flood.

This is not the only legend that surrounds the olive tree and makes it immortal. Zeus decided to give Athens and Attiva as a gift to the God who would provide this land with the most useful gift. Athena and Poseidon challenge each other. Poseidon will provide the horse, Athena the olive tree. Zeus judges his daughter goddess as the winner, maintaining that the horse is for war while the olive tree is for peace.