The Hungry Eye : Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance /
Barkan, Leonard
The Hungry Eye : Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance / Leonard Barkan. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 210 color illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Reading for the Food -- Chapter Two Rome Eats -- Chapter Three Fooding the Bible -- Chapter Four The Debate over Dinner -- Chapter Five Mimesis, Metaphor, Embodiment -- Notes -- Index -- Image Credits
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and cultureEating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft.In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink. Plato's Symposium is a timeless philosophical text, one that also describes a drinking party. Salome performed her dance at a banquet where the head of John the Baptist was presented on a platter. Barkan looks at ancient mosaics, Dutch still life, and Venetian Last Suppers. He describes how ancient Rome was a paradise of culinary obsessives, and explains what it meant for the Israelites to dine on manna. He discusses the surprising relationship between Renaissance perspective and dinner parties, and sheds new light on the moment when the risen Christ appears to his disciples hungry for a piece of broiled fish. Readers will browse the pages of the Deipnosophistae—an ancient Greek work in sixteen volumes about a single meal, complete with menus—and gain epicurean insights into such figures as Rabelais and Shakespeare, Leonardo and Vermeer.A book for anyone who relishes the pleasures of the table, The Hungry Eye is an erudite and uniquely personal look at all the glorious ways that food and drink have transfigured Western arts and high culture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691222387
10.1515/9780691222387 doi
2020044599
Aesthetics, European.
Arts, European--Themes, motives.
Dinners and dining--History.--Europe
ART / History / Renaissance.
Agathon. Apicius. Apple of Discord. Balsamic vinegar. Baptistery. Bartolomeo Scappi. Bathos. Broth. Carneades. Carpaccio. Cockaigne. Colloquies. Cookbook. Cooking. Coriander. Cosimo de' Medici. Cuisine. Deipnosophistae. Delicacy. Drinking. Elegant variation. Encomium. Epicurus. Erudition. Foie gras. Foodie. François Rabelais. Fritter. Gambero Rosso. Garum. Gastronomy. Genre. Giovanni Bellini. Giulio Romano. Gluttony. Gorgias. High Renaissance. High culture. Iconography. Ingredient. Intinction. Joachim Beuckelaer. Juvenal. Late Antiquity. Literature. Loeb Classical Library. Lucretius. Lunch. Mead. Meal. Metaphor. Mince pie. Moralia. Narrative. Necromancy. Otium. Paolo Veronese. Parody. Pastry. Philosophy. Poetry. Pottage. Prince Hal. Prosciutto. Pungency. Quantity. Ratramnus. Recipe. Ridicule. Satire. Satires (Juvenal). Scholasticism. Silphium. Simon the Pharisee. Slow Food. Sophist. Spice. Still life. Sumptuary law. Superiority (short story). Terence. The Cheese and the Worms. The Decameron. The Other Hand. The Philosopher. The Praise of Folly. The Wedding at Cana. Tintoretto. Titian. Transubstantiation. Triclinium. Trimalchio. Truffle. Vegetable. Verisimilitude (fiction). Vinegar. Vitruvius. Warfare. Writing. Zeuxis.
BH221.E853 BH221.E853 / B37 2021
364.1/20940902
The Hungry Eye : Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance / Leonard Barkan. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 210 color illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Reading for the Food -- Chapter Two Rome Eats -- Chapter Three Fooding the Bible -- Chapter Four The Debate over Dinner -- Chapter Five Mimesis, Metaphor, Embodiment -- Notes -- Index -- Image Credits
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and cultureEating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft.In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink. Plato's Symposium is a timeless philosophical text, one that also describes a drinking party. Salome performed her dance at a banquet where the head of John the Baptist was presented on a platter. Barkan looks at ancient mosaics, Dutch still life, and Venetian Last Suppers. He describes how ancient Rome was a paradise of culinary obsessives, and explains what it meant for the Israelites to dine on manna. He discusses the surprising relationship between Renaissance perspective and dinner parties, and sheds new light on the moment when the risen Christ appears to his disciples hungry for a piece of broiled fish. Readers will browse the pages of the Deipnosophistae—an ancient Greek work in sixteen volumes about a single meal, complete with menus—and gain epicurean insights into such figures as Rabelais and Shakespeare, Leonardo and Vermeer.A book for anyone who relishes the pleasures of the table, The Hungry Eye is an erudite and uniquely personal look at all the glorious ways that food and drink have transfigured Western arts and high culture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691222387
10.1515/9780691222387 doi
2020044599
Aesthetics, European.
Arts, European--Themes, motives.
Dinners and dining--History.--Europe
ART / History / Renaissance.
Agathon. Apicius. Apple of Discord. Balsamic vinegar. Baptistery. Bartolomeo Scappi. Bathos. Broth. Carneades. Carpaccio. Cockaigne. Colloquies. Cookbook. Cooking. Coriander. Cosimo de' Medici. Cuisine. Deipnosophistae. Delicacy. Drinking. Elegant variation. Encomium. Epicurus. Erudition. Foie gras. Foodie. François Rabelais. Fritter. Gambero Rosso. Garum. Gastronomy. Genre. Giovanni Bellini. Giulio Romano. Gluttony. Gorgias. High Renaissance. High culture. Iconography. Ingredient. Intinction. Joachim Beuckelaer. Juvenal. Late Antiquity. Literature. Loeb Classical Library. Lucretius. Lunch. Mead. Meal. Metaphor. Mince pie. Moralia. Narrative. Necromancy. Otium. Paolo Veronese. Parody. Pastry. Philosophy. Poetry. Pottage. Prince Hal. Prosciutto. Pungency. Quantity. Ratramnus. Recipe. Ridicule. Satire. Satires (Juvenal). Scholasticism. Silphium. Simon the Pharisee. Slow Food. Sophist. Spice. Still life. Sumptuary law. Superiority (short story). Terence. The Cheese and the Worms. The Decameron. The Other Hand. The Philosopher. The Praise of Folly. The Wedding at Cana. Tintoretto. Titian. Transubstantiation. Triclinium. Trimalchio. Truffle. Vegetable. Verisimilitude (fiction). Vinegar. Vitruvius. Warfare. Writing. Zeuxis.
BH221.E853 BH221.E853 / B37 2021
364.1/20940902