looking up in the Loggia of Cupid and Psyche painted by Raphael - fruits! vegetables! nudes!

…whose ceiling is laden with the most sumptuous depictions of all variety of fruit and vegetable was painted by Raphael at Villa Farnesina (1510), and was the highlight of a day that began with the third in a series of talks by Leonard Barkan at the American Academy in Rome on “Food Culture and High Culture, Antiquity and Renaissance”.