Food and Feasting in Art - Guide to Imagery

Informationen zum Autor Silvia Malaguzzi teaches art history of the Renaissance at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She writes for the magazine Art e Dossier. Klappentext Malaguzzi's work describes the significance of food and feasts through the ages and discusses how artists have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, for example, artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the still-life genre in painting. Zusammenfassung Illustrated with masterpieces of western art! this volume explores the rituals! customs! and symbolism of food and dining in art. It describes the importance of food and feasts in art throughout history as told in the Scriptures and in the lives of the saints; food and dining in Greek and Roman mythology; and food in later literature and history.

Product details

• Authors: . Malaguzzi, .. Malaguzzi, Silvia Malaguzzi, Sylvia Malaguzzi
• Assisted by: Brian Phillips (Translation)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.05.2008
• EAN: 9780892369140
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-914-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Guide to Imagery; Guide to Imagery; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications -
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history