A visual feast
18.05.12
You can find food not onlyin restaurants and markets, but also inside museums. Before the weather keeps us outdoors for months, take a spin through the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and find out what's cooking on the walls.
When it comes to paintings of festive, candle-covered birthday cakes, or a seafood dinner that looks good enough to eat, curator Erika Holmquist-Wall is the ultimate insider docent. Follow along as she guides us on a special up-close-and-personal tour of food-related treasures in the museum's permanent collection. These nine aren't the only pieces of food-related art at the museum. See if you can find the others. Admission? It's free.
1. "Allegory of the Four Elements"
by Cornelis Jacobsz Delff (Dutch), oil on panel (28 by 40 inches), circa 1600
"To do a food tour, we should probably start with cookware, right?" said Holmquist-Wall. "This is the earliest still life in the collection, and it's really early for a Dutch still life. When we acquired it in 2002, we took it at face value for what it was: a simple, straightforward kitchen still life. It's what Delff was known for.
Source: Sacramento Bee