Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy

by John Varriano

Book Overview

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a recipe for fish molded in the shape of a goat, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259041
• ISBN13: 9780520259041
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.0"