{"product_id":"the-hungry-eye-eating-drinking-and-european-culture-from-rome-to-the-renaissance-9780691211466","title":"The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enticing history of food and drink in Western art and culture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. \u003ci\u003eThe Hungry Eye\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink. Plato's \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless philosophical text, one that also describes a drinking party. Salome performed her dance at a banquet where the head of John the Baptist was presented on a platter. Barkan looks at ancient mosaics, Dutch still life, and Venetian Last Suppers. He describes how ancient Rome was a paradise of culinary obsessives, and explains what it meant for the Israelites to dine on manna. He discusses the surprising relationship between Renaissance perspective and dinner parties, and sheds new light on the moment when the risen Christ appears to his disciples hungry for a piece of broiled fish. Readers will browse the pages of the \u003ci\u003eDeipnosophistae\u003c\/i\u003e--an ancient Greek work in sixteen volumes about a single meal, complete with menus--and gain epicurean insights into such figures as Rabelais and Shakespeare, Leonardo and Vermeer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA book for anyone who relishes the pleasures of the table, \u003ci\u003eThe Hungry Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is an erudite and uniquely personal look at all the glorious ways that food and drink have transfigured Western arts and high culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Barkan\u003c\/b\u003e is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His books include \u003ci\u003eMute Poetry, Speaking Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton), \u003ci\u003eUnearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSatyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Twitter @LeonardBarkan\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50511992455442,"sku":"9780691211466","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab2bd638-49ab-4cdf-9082-2e3bc030d8ea.jpg?v=1730948875","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hungry-eye-eating-drinking-and-european-culture-from-rome-to-the-renaissance-9780691211466","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}