About Food - Galleri Brandstrup

For millennia, artists have turned to food as a subject, a material, and a metaphor. In antiquity, depictions of harvests marked the rhythms of daily life. The Renaissance elevated food into allegory, weaving it into portraits, religious narratives, and courtly pageantry. In the seventeenth century, Dutch still lifes transformed imported food into symbols of status and reminders of mortality, revealing the economic and colonial networks that brought them to the table.