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Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining: Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy

Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining: Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy

Goldstein, Claudia

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Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Art HistoryAnthropologyPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 1041176120
ISBN13: 9781041176121
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 10 2026
Pages: 188
Language: English
Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite merchants and nobles like Margaret of Parma displayed them as they were meant to be displayed: in dining rooms and spaces used for entertaining. This study explores the cross-cultural meanings of Beuckelaer's distinctly Northern European kitchen and market scenes in the context of North Italian dining and food culture. Examining the functions of Beuckelaer's strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room, addressing dining practice and the class and gender tensions inherent in a setting that placed both elite and non-elite viewers before life-sized renderings of their employees, and themselves.

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