1st Edition
Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy
By Claudia Goldstein
Copyright 2025
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite merchants and nobles like Margaret of Parma displayed them as they were meant to be displayed: in dining... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction - Beuckelaer as Periscope, 1. Kitchens, Markets, and Marthas in Antwerp Houses, 2. Beuckelaer and Margaret of Parma's Flemish Identity, 3. Fashion Spreads: Campi and the Affaitadi in Cremona (and beyond), 4. Parties, Privacy, Performance, and Paintings in the Duchy of Milan, 5. Class, Food, Paintings, Health, Conclusion - The Problem with Beuckelaer, Bibliography, List of Illustrations, Index
Biography
Claudia Goldstein is Professor of Art History at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, USA. She holds an MA in Italian Renaissance Art from Syracuse University’s Florence Program and a PhD in Northern Renaissance Art from Columbia. Her first book, Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party, won the Joop Witteveen Prize from the University of Amsterdam in 2014.
