RT Book
T1 Eve's apple to last supper: picturing food in the Bible
A1 Kauffmann, Claus M. 1931-2023
LA English
PP Woodbridge
PB The Boydell Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/858729873
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references (page 165) and indexes
CN N8020
SN 9781783271375
SN 178327137X
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