Editing Citrus (section)

== In art and culture ==

[[File:Giovanna Garzoni (Italian) - Still Life with Bowl of Citrons - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|[[Giovanna Garzoni]]'s ''Still Life with Bowl of Citrons'', late 1640s]]

Lemons appear in paintings, pop art, and novels.<ref name="Reidy 2024"/> A wall painting in the [[tomb of Nakht]] in 15th century BC Egypt depicts a woman in a festival, holding a lemon. In the 17th century, [[Giovanna Garzoni]] painted a ''Still Life with Bowl of Citrons'', the fruits still attached to leafy flowering twigs, with a wasp on one of the fruits. The [[Impressionism|impressionist]] [[Édouard Manet|Edouard Manet]] depicted a lemon on a pewter plate. In modern art, [[Arshile Gorky]] painted ''Still Life with Lemons'' in the 1930s.<ref name="Reidy 2024">{{cite news |last=Reidy |first=Tess |title=The king of zing: lemons in art – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/23/the-king-of-zing-lemons-in-art-in-pictures |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 March 2024}}</ref> 

Citrus fruits "were the clear status symbols of the nobility in the ancient Mediterranean", according to the [[Paleoethnobotany|paleoethnobotanist]] Dafna Langgut.<ref name="Huang 2021"/> In [[Louisa May Alcott]]'s 1868 novel ''[[Little Women]]'', the character Amy March states that "It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else… If one girl likes another, she gives her a lime; if she’s mad with her, she eats one before her face, and doesn’t offer even a suck."<ref name="Huang 2021">{{cite web |last=Huang |first=Jean |title=When Life Gives You Lemons, It's a Status Symbol: On the Evolving Literary and Cultural History of Citrus |url=https://lithub.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-its-a-status-symbol-on-the-evolving-literary-and-cultural-history-of-citrus/ |website=LitHub |access-date=20 October 2024 |date=1 October 2021}}</ref>