Food in art : from prehistory to the Renaissance / Gillian Riley.

  • Riley, Gillian
Date:
2015
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Reaktion Books, 2015.

Physical description

319 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Contributors

Contents

Glimpses of food in the Palaeolithic world -- Eating in the ancient Middle East : Mesopotamia -- The pleasure of food in ancient Egypt -- In ancient Greece and Rome -- Bright feasts in the Dark Ages -- The Middle Ages -- Realism and symbolism in the Renaissance kitchen -- Late Renaissance modernity.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DFW.AL
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781780233628
  • 1780233620