Paintings of Food, Moral Lessons

[loreleyjacob]

After posting yesterday about “Isabella and the Pot of Basil”, I was inspired to search more artists who paid attention to food, cooking, farming, and fresh produce.

One of the most interesting artists in the context of food is Joachim Beuckelaer, a Belgian painter from the 16th Century who depicted cooks, butchers, market scenes and village feasts

Comments

[thegreencall]

Those paintings looked really familar (in terms of style). My local art musem has some copies for his work on display. But there is a much larger painting of a full dining table with game birds as well as produce that is very much done in a similar style (perhaps done by a comtemporary) that I couldn't put my finger on to provide a link. His work is very striking, visceral.