Tastes and Temptations Food and Art in Renaissance Italy

Name: Tastes and Temptations Food and Art in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780520269941

ISBN-10: 0520269942

ISBN-13: 9780520269941

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Varriano

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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

John Varriano is Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture, Rome: A Literary Companion, and Caravaggio: The Art of Realism.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Parallels in Food and Art



Artists and Cooks



Regional Tastes


Images of Food in Art



Significant Still Lifes



Sacred Suppers



Erotic Appetites


Food in the Studio, Art at the Table



Eggs, Butter, Lard, and Oil



Eating and Erudition



Edible Art


Postscript


Notes


Bibliography


List of Illustrations and Credits


Index