A Moveable Feast

摘要

A basket of grapes painted by Zeuxis more than 2,000 years ago was so realistic, the grapes so enticing, that birds . ew down from the sky to peck at the picture, wrote Pliny the Elder in The Natural History. Food imagery, around since antiquity, expanded and . ourished during the 17th century, as part of renewed interest in still-life paint-ing in the Netherlands but also among German, French, Italian, and Spanish artists of the same period