Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining

Claudia Goldstein is Professor of Art History at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, USA. She holds an MA in Italian Renaissance Art from Syracuse University’s Florence Program and a PhD in Northern Renaissance Art from Columbia. Her first book, Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party, won the Joop Witteveen Prize from the University of Amsterdam in 2014.

"By studying the Italian viewership and following of Beuckelaer’s food stall paintings, Goldstein liberates them from the Northern canon of art history and restores their early modern appreciation as cosmopolitan works of art and objects of class distinction."– Tine Luk Meganck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Acknowledgements, Introduction - Beuckelaer as Periscope, 1. Kitchens, Markets, and Marthas in Antwerp Houses, 2. Beuckelaer and Margaret of Parma's Flemish Identity, 3. Fashion Spreads: Campi and the Affaitadi in Cremona (and beyond), 4. Parties, Privacy, Performance, and Paintings in the Duchy of Milan, 5. Class, Food, Paintings, Health, Conclusion - The Problem with Beuckelaer, Bibliography, List of Illustrations, Index