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Image: Food after Flood, lithograph Today we restart our posts of art on Saturdays. We started the series to highlight works of art that intersect with the world of food, often with a celebratory theme. With the damage done to the dining world in general and D.C. in particular that seemed off-note and only became […]
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Image: Fede Galizia, “A Still Life of a Porcelain Bowl of Grapes on a Stone Ledge with a Medlar, Quinces, a Pomegranate and a Wasp” For our Saturday art post this week we again turn to Italy and find another woman painter doing still lifes of extraordinary detail. But before we get to the painting, […]
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Image: Giovanna Garzoni, “Cherries on a Plate, Broad Beans, and Bumblebee” (ca. 1665) On Saturdays we divert our attention from writing about the D.C. dining world to focus on art. For the last few weeks we’ve suspended writing about restaurants other than to keep two lists updates. The first list is ways to help employees […]
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Image: Melchior d’ Hondecoeter, “Peacocks” (1683). Oil on canvas During this time of corona, we have reduced postings on this dining guide site to three things: 1) Updating the post on ways you can help those who lost their jobs in the food & beverage industry; 2) Updating the post on ways to help D.C. […]
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Image: Peter Wtewael, “Kitchen Scene” (1620s). Oil on canvas. For our Saturday postings, we like to turn from the world of dining to the world of art – especially art that uses food as a subject. We have been doing a deep dive on still life painting this year and today’s post continues that theme. […]
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Image: Jan Davidsz de Heem “Still Life with a Glass and Oysters” (c. 1640) Normally we interrupt our weekday postings of restaurant reviews and related content to post about art on Saturday. This week we had only one post. It is a page of resources to support the D.C. restaurant industry in this time of […]
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Image: Floris van Dyck, “Still Life with Fruit, Nuts and Cheese” (1613) For the past few months we have been doing posts on Saturday to highlight a piece of art, especially art that has a food theme. We often refer to them as “virtual side trips” to the museum. Side trips because they are only […]
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Image: Frans Snyder, “Still Life with Basket of Fruit” (1630s) Last week in our Saturday art posting we highlighted a joint painting by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders. Snyders was a master of still life painting, and this week we highlight one of his solo projects, Still Life with Basket of Fruit. Of course […]
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