Tutti i popoli, in ogni epoca, hanno festeggiato a tavola. Ma come? Dai banchetti dei Greci alle feste medioevali, fino ai pranzi in famiglia, un pasto è spesso molto più che mangiare.

Talia incarnava la prosperità, ed essendo le Grazie divinità collegate alla natura, Talia era anche la portatrice di fiori nonché la dea della festa e dei ricchi banchetti. La parola greca thalia è un aggettivo applicato ai banchetti, che significa ricco, abbondante e lussureggiante. Grazie è nome

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Au Musée du château royal de Blois, une exposition met en scène l'art de la table et la cuisine de l'époque.

Carissimi amici, oggi Marco Gavio de Rubeis, autore di saggi di grande successo di storia della gastronomia, vi propone un articolo dedicato a una delle carni più amate nel periodo medievale e rina…

L’elenco di TUTTE le opere di Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio conservate a Roma: Bacchino malato 1593-1594 Olio su tela 67 × 53 cm Galleria Borghese Fanciullo con canestro di frutta 1593-15…

E’ probabilmente l’opera più celebre presente nella collezione del cardinale Federico Borromeo, nucleo originario della Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, ed è giustamente considerata una sorta di prototipo della “natura morta”. Essa rappresenta un canestro di vimini da cui traboccano frutti e foglie, il tutto eseguito con grande realismo e attenzione al dettaglio, quasi in contrasto col fondo […]

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Un team di archeologi dell’Università Pablo de Olavide di Siviglia ha ritrovato un triclinio “galleggiante” unico al mondo a Villa Adriana.

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Welcome to the exotic and strange entrance to our kitchen... Over the years we have heard odd rumors of what our kitchen looked like before it was renovated. Whispers of a nightmarish island of yellow linoleum surrounded by a sea of orange shag carpet, accented with brown appliances and Formica counter tops in fetching (retching?) shades of biodegrading tropical fruit. The Sense of Taste / Jan Brueghel, the Elder 1618. (This painting perfectly captures our dream kitchen...complete with a beastly servant) Now we could laugh this off as some sick joke or creepy urban legend. We could, if it were not for the utterly disturbing KITCHEN CABINETS that somehow avoided removal!!! The aforementioned cabinets are coated with a strange rubbery brown paint that is now flaking away to expose an even stranger pressed wood composite material what was surely manufactured by the aliens at Area 51 (or perhaps at Studio 54 for that matter…) We will NOT describe the evil shelf paper that we found lurking in the lower cabinets for it will only give you nightmares. Suffice to say that brown daisies such as depicted could only grow at a sewage treatment facility or a defective nuclear power plant. This brought us to quite a design quandary. When it came to decorating the kitchen, it became rapidly apparent that the cupboards were going to be quite difficult to disguise, so we decided on the tried and true design tactic of “SENSORY PERCEPTION OVERLOAD”. Upon a moment of critical reflection it appears our kitchen resembles a scene from Christina Rossetti’s lovely poem “The Goblin Market.” Perhaps it is the entrance framed by a cloth of gold drapery beautifully tarnished to resemble bronze tinged iridescent beetle wings (complete with a gargoyle masked valance.) Or maybe it is the celestial skyscape (otherwise known as the ceiling). A glittering collection of colored glass lanterns, stars and moons that dangle mere inches overhead and have been known to jingle seductively when someone runs through the hallway (not that we encourage that sort of behavior around here…) A few friends from Seraph + Splendor’s Kitchen Menagerie… Small bits and pieces of counter space are left untouched by the encroachment of a bewildering folk art menagerie. Seriously, if one is in need of the stock pot or an extra set of wine glass, one must be prepared to move a three foot tall embroidered bull, an antique winged elephant and a pig on wheels. Bowls of enchanted fruit outnumber the “real” fruit bowls 3 to 1 at last count, and there are an exorbitant number of wooden frogs for such a limited space. (Don’t ask…no one is quite sure how the frog collection began or if there is a humane way to stop it…this probably is a good time to state that Seraph puts up with a lot of nonsense around here, and that’s one of the reasons we love him so much!) For further inspiration, we have included these wicked and sublime centerpieces (below) created by Jim Hartley, a Memphis based formal designer. Now, precious ones, now tell us of your interesting kitchen experiences… Avatars of powers from four worlds Bathed me in jewels of belief I drink the nectar of Goddess - my eternal mistress I am Shiva, Hadit or Beast himself And multitude of forms surpasses myself I kneel before Isis, I - her god and slave Coiled serpent lifts up his head and looks in my eyes Third power and third eye create the One (“Ceremony of Shiva” by Behemoth)

Siamo a Firenze in un periodo di grande splendore e crescita e magnificenza sia economica che culturale. Magnificenza e opulenza che spesso si accompagnano a costumi non sempre morigerati come aveva…

Jan Mandijn (Haarlem, c.1500 – Antwerpen, c.1560) , was a Dutch Renaissance painter. According to Van Mander in 1604, he was the teacher of Gillis Mostaert, and he could paint funny scenes like Hieronymus Bosch. [Oil on oak panel, 98.5 x 147 cm] gandalfsgallery.blogspot.com/2011/11/jan-mandijn-burlesqu...