Forbidden fruit Adam and Eve upon expelling them from the Garden. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified." Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was
Elizabeth Sweeting died in 1974. While visiting Adelaide, Australia, as a visiting professor in 1974, she was invited to become a consultant to the South Australia new Arts Council. She was director until 1981, establishing Australia's first arts management graduate courses. She returned to the UK in 1981 and retired in 1985 to Ironbridge, Shropshire. She died following a heart attack on 7 December 1999. Elizabeth Sweeting Elizabeth Sweeting (1914–1999) was a leader in performing arts and arts administration in England and Australia. She was born 19 November 1914 in London. After receiving a scholarship she graduated from Royal Holloway College, University