Eve's apple to the Last Supper : picturing food in the Bible /

Eve's apple to the Last Supper : picturing food in the Bible /

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Author / Creator:Kauffmann, C. M. (Claus Michael), 1931- author.
Imprint:Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2017.
©2017
Description:viii, 176 pages ; 29 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Bible -- Illustrations.
Bible.
Dinners and dining in art.
Dinners and dining in the Bible.
Food in art.
Food in the Bible.
Illustrated works.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11320534
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ISBN:9781783271375
178327137X
Summary:There are a huge number of works of art which represent Biblical scenes, and even though only a handful of such pictorial representations show meals or cookery, it is an intriguing visual topic. This splendidly illustrated book deals with about twenty episodes which are relatively frequently chose as subjects by painters, The emphasis is on the social aspects of eating and discusses both the figures in such scenes, their postures and gestures, and the moral lessons of the text. The actual food is relatively sparsely shown but is nonetheless culturally interesting. The text provides both a detailed commentary on the images themselves and the broader context from which they derive.

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