Art and Food

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1. In a famous Vermeer painting you can see a maid wearing the typical Dutch bonnet. On her right (the viewer's left) there is a window which is the only light source. The maid is working at a table full of food. She is pouring some beverage from a jug. Which beverage is it? beer milk wine water

2. Caravaggio's "Basket of Fruit" is famous for being the first "still life" in art history. What is also peculiar with this still life? Most of the fruit shows signs of decaying. In the back of the basket you can see a banana. There are summer fruits together with spring fruits. It is extremely detailed, which is hard to reach with tempera.

3. In Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" a loving couple has chosen a very unusual alcove to "express their feelings". What is this couple's bed? A leaf A mussel A blossom A nutshell

4. One of Boucher's pastoral paintings shows a young couple busy harvesting something. The boy has climbed a ladder cast against a tree trunk and is throwing something he has just picked in the girl's apron. What is he throwing? strawberries peaches nuts cherries

5. This Italian baroque painter is world known for his "capricci", paintings where he used flowers, fruits, vegetables or animals to compose anthropomorphic figures. Who is this painter? Annibale Carracci Caravaggio Giuseppe Arcimboldo Orazio Gentileschi

6. The peasant family portrayed in Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters" are of course busy eating potatoes. But what are they drinking with their meal? wine beer coffee water

7. The subject of the "Last Supper" was often chosen to decorate the dining hall in a monastery and in fact Leonardo's "Last Supper" is visible in such a room at Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery, in Milan. But what is the Italian world for a dining hall in a monastery? chiostro capitolo ristorante refettorio

8. "The Absynthe" by Degas is quite famous. A few years later also Manet painted something on a similar subject. A melancholy young woman, possibly a prostitute is sitting in a cafè. She has a distracted gaze and has forgotten to light her cigarette. On the table in front of her sits a glass of brandy in which what is soaked? Her cigarette A cherry A plum A pineapple slice

9. Another Manet masterpiece is "Bar at the Folies Bergeres". In the foreground there is a bottle of beer. Where was this beer manufactured? Alsace England Germany Netherlands

10. In Rembrandt's "The Nightwatch", light is cast on a figure that looks out of place among the soldiers: a young girl on whose belt a dead bird is hanging. Which bird is it? A chicken A pheasant A turkey A lark