The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

by Leonard Barkan

An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and culture Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft. In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691211469
• ISBN13: 9780691211466
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.8"