Matters of Taste : Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life

by BARNES DONNA R.

• ISBN13: 9780815607472
• ISBN10: 0815607474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose provide a narrative to accompany this collection of Dutch art as it relates to images of food and drink. The sixty paintings presented in this volume are discussed individually from both an art history and a culinary history perspective, including authentic period recipes. An accompanying cookbook adapts these recipes for the modern kitchen.
Drawn exclusively from American museums, art galleries, and private collections, the works of art portray still lifes, Dutch tavern and market scenes, and festive occasions by forty-five Dutch artists such as well-known painters Jan Steen, Adriaen van Ostade, and Pieter Claesz, and their less famous contemporaries such as Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam and Harmen van Steenwijck.

Author Biography

Donna R. Barnes is a professor of education at Hofstra University Peter G. Rose is a food historian and author

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Statement from the Mayor of Albany	p. xi
Collections	p. xii
Director's Foreword: Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
The Founding of Beverwijck, 1652	p. 1
A Moveable Feast: The American Appetite for Netherlandish Genre and Still-Life Paintings	p. 5
Dutch Paintings in the Seventeenth Century	p. 9
Dutch Foodways: an American Connection	p. 17
Catalog	p. 29
Glossary	p. 151
Cited and Suggested Works	p. 153
Index	p. 155
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