[Sca-cooks] Food paintings

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Tue Mar 2 20:48:37 PST 2004


Try wedding at cana for some examples.
Google searching it through the images section
is 478 images tonight. The trick is trying to figure
out what was painted that might contain food.

Johnnae

Daniel Myers wrote:

> http://gallery.euroweb.hu/
>
> Ok, so I'm slowly digging through the above web archive in search of 
> paintings featuring foods (especially pies) and I find myself thinking 
> grumpy thoughts about the painters, such as:
>
>     "He calls that a banquet?  There's nothing on the table but a half 
> a loaf of bread and an empty glass!"
>
>
> What's worse, the more tired I get, the more I'm looking for paintings 
> with titles like:
>
>     "The Virgin Mary and Child Being Fed a Tart of Cherries"
>
>     "Saint Sebastian With the Bakers"
>
> ... and the ever popular ...
>
>     "Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist in a Standing Crust"
>
>
> I should probably give up for the night and go to bed, eh?
>
> - Doc
>
>




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