Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy by John Varriano antique print Peterson Corner

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Dale Kent offers new insights and perspectives on the individual objects comprising the Medici oeuvre by setting them within the context of civic and popular culture in early Renaissance Florence

Illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena entered an innovative phase at the time of the Renaissance

for they represent an exquisite representation of the forbidden

this is an indispensable opportunity to hit the road with the man himself

Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy by John Varriano antique print Peterson CornerTastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy by John Varriano 8vo. pp. xi, 260. colour & b w illustrations. hardcover. dw. Berkeley: University of California Press, [2009]. New. #27 in the California Studies in Food and Culture Series. ISBN 10: 0520259041 ISBN 13: 9780520259041 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ This title features fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in