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A journey through five centuries of food and drink in art.
Spanish School, Still Life with Red Macaw, c 1650
© Bowes Museum
From Arcimboldo’s 16th-century composite fantasies to present-day works and recreated table settings produced with relevant objects from the Bowes’s collection and replica food, this show will look at changing fashions in still life, market scenes, and pictures of feasting, pausing along the way to consider how the symbolism of food conveys meanings in paintings.
Key loans will be shown beside pictures objects and archive material from the museum’s collection.
Venue details
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 8NP
01833 690606
www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
Entry details
Open daily, 10am – 5pm
Closed 25 – 26 Dec and 1 Jan
Telephone 01833 690606