Kunst koken in de tijd van 'De groote waereld in 't kleen geschildert' (1692)

Abstract

On 8 December 2017, the supervisor of my PhD-thesis, Prof.Dr. Jeroen Stumpel, gave his valedictory lecture at Utrecht University. To thank and honour him a Festschrift was prepared. The project in which I am participating under his supervision treats the illusionism, esp. the rendering of material properties, in seventeenth-century still-life painting. As regards the depiction of food, Willem Beurs (author of the treatise 'The big world painted small') argues it should look appetising. In the article I turned this around: it is not about painted peaches that look edible (juicy and tasty even), but it discusses statuettes, artistically made from edible materials, that were dished out for dessert or even decoration.