# Pineapple \(Bromelia ananas\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LIGOZZI, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Drawing, 675 x 461 mm ## Commentary Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici was an enthusiastic student of natural history and the physical sciences. One of his correspondents was the naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi, to whom Francesco sent drawings by Ligozzi, his court painter. In the wake of the age of exploration, drawings such as Ligozzi's were important mediums of study. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Allegory of Fortune]() - [Christ Carrying the Cross]() - [Gerbil]() - [Model for a pietre dure table top]() - [Portrait of Leopoldo de' Medici in Swaddling]() - [Psittacus Ararauna]() - [Sacrifice of Isaac]() - [The Rape of the Sabine Women \(detail\)]() - [The Rape of the Sabine Women]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()