Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy by John Varriano

Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy

California Studies in Food and Culture #27

John Varriano

280 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced
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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 discovery of an Ovidian scene at the bottom of a...

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