Coral between mythology, art and history.
The origin of coral has been mysterious for centuries. Ovid in the “Metamorphosis” and Pliny the Elder in the “Naturalis historia” identify the same mythical genesis of coral: the blood gushed from the cut head of the gorgon Medusa was transformed into coral. The warm and vivid colour, its marine origin, its ambiguous nature must […]
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