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| author |
Charlotte Reing
| | title |
Parla come mangi: Food, Presentation, and the Break from Tradition in Italian Visual Culture
| | abstract |
This thesis studies societal ideas of etiquette and food in culinary literature from three
periods of Italian history and how these are reflected visually in these same periods. Throughout
each chapter, I study how these visual elements display contemporary ideas of how an individual
should present themselves. I specifically focus on Giovanni della Casa's Galateo and Venetian
manners in Veronese's Marriage at Cana, the classification of upper and lower-class foods in
Baldassare Pisanelli's Trattato della natura de' cibi et del bere and the passing of time in a
selection of Caravaggio's paintings, and new ideas of etiquette and dining from F.T. Marinetti's
La cucina futurista and how these are actually rooted in the historical traditions from chapters
one and two. Culinary literature should be enfolded into art historical context as it captures
important cultural information that is otherwise overlooked in visual culture. By making
connections to these culinary literatures and contemporary visual representations, I aim to show
that the literature surrounding food can expand or enforce the perspectives from which art
historians approach works of art.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2024)
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| advisor |
Emmanuele Occhipinti
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| full text | CReing.pdf |
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