The Monitor Daily

Saturday, January 23, 2021
Log in

As a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, this site may earn from qualifying purchases. We may also earn commissions on purchases from other retail websites.

  • Home
  • Politics & National News
  • Business News
  • Tech & Science
  • Health & Lifestyle
  • About us
    • Contact US
    • Privacy Policy GDPR
    • Terms of Use
  • Latest News
    • Stormy Planet
    • US Surgeon Performs Face Transplant
    • 2017 MTV VMAs Nominations Are In And Voting Is Now Open
    • Bright House: Free McAfee AntiVirus and Adult Controls
    • Antarctic Yeti Crab Gets Formal Scientific Name
    • Spiders Take Over Australian Town
    • Interesting Facts About the Apollo 11 Mission
    • Social Smoking or The New Landmark of Elegance Among Young Women
    • Rare Weasel Returns To Washington State

Pages

  • About The Monitor Daily
  • Contact US
  • Our Team
  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Terms of Use

Recent Posts

  • Precisely what is Administration Buyback? Feb 12, 2020
  • Precisely what is Administration Buyback? Feb 12, 2020
  • Where by do Registered requests get kept Dec 1, 2019
  • Find a Star of the event on the Submit Purchase New bride List May 19, 2019
  • Locate Really enjoy On the internet Apr 30, 2019
  • Get Love On the net Apr 12, 2019
  • NYC Man Snaps Photo of the Victim After Sucker-Punching Him in Broad Daylight Jun 29, 2018

Indulgent Food in Paintings and on Instagram

By Leave a Comment

indulgent food

In the Medieval times just like now on Instagram, pictures of indulgent food were a sign of status.

Researchers looked out for indulgent food in pictures of more than 500 years old and found that bread and meat were highly appreciated even then.

The conclusion is that the abundant meals with unhealthy and indulgent food are not something induced by our modern times. Humans have a long history of food indulgences, including sausages, bread, or salt, all food that we know now are not entirely safe for our body.

The study involved the analysis of 750 food paintings from the last five centuries, out of which 140 were portraying family meals, and it was financed by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.

The 36 paintings from Renaissance showed bread on the table in 86%. The meat was present in 61% of the cases, and only 22% had any vegetables included in the meal.

Most of the painters preferred less common foods, like artichokes, lemons, or lobsters, which were hard to find at that time in history. The authors say that the trend shows the preference for foods that are indulgent, and the paintings express an aspiration or have the sole purpose of being aesthetically pleasant.

“Our love affair with visually appealing, decadent, or status foods is nothing new,” “It was already well-established 500 years ago,” said co-author Andrew Weislogel, Ph.D., Curator of Earlier European American Art.

Decadent and expensive meals are not an invention of this century. Displaying indulgent food as a way to show status existed long before our times, when people share food photos on the social media.

While the items exhibited in the paintings were mostly exotic fruits and lobsters, the standard meal at that time consisted of bread and chicken.

As for the Instagram users, they also prefer to show off pictures taken in expensive restaurants, exotic places, or indulgent food resulted from laborious cooking and great skill.

The modern food exhibitionists want to create an image of them that shows how much money they have to spare, how adventurous and worldly they are. The photos are rarely about food, but they want to convey a message related to their status.

In the historical paintings, the preferred foods were the ones difficult to found. For example, olives do not show at all in the Italian paintings, but they are preferred in other countries were they had to be imported and therefore, were more valuable.

As time went by, the food pictures started to reflect what people did eat. One explanation is that the industrialization era brought more ways to display a social status.

The experts say that in our modern times, people are showing pictures of food to create an image of how exciting their lives are. On a month to month basis, very few individuals get to do something really extraordinary. Exotic and complicated food can replace other types of status displays.

Image Source: Wikipedia

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Share on Tumblr

Filed Under: Health & Lifestyle

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 34 other subscribers

Operation Paperclip

Remembering Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last Member of Von Braun’s Rocket Team

By Leave a Comment

giant ground sloths on white background

It Seems that Giant Sloths Once Roamed Earth, and Humans Used to Hunt Them? (Study)

By Leave a Comment

sn 2001ig supernova explosion and images of its stars

A Star Escaped a Supernova Explosion, and NASA Snapped its Picture

By Leave a Comment

ngc 6420 galaxy resembling a giant butterfly

Hubble Spots Giant Butterfly Formed by a Black Hole and Stellar Winds (Study)

By Leave a Comment

infrared image of a dog

Space Technology Could Help Protect Earth’s Endangered Species

By Leave a Comment

snake slithering on a beige background

Kirigami Skin Is Helping a Soft Robot Slither Like a Snake (Study)

By Leave a Comment

woolly mammoth

Ice Age Tracks Reveal How Young Mammoths Cared for Adult Ones (Study)

By Leave a Comment

High Priestess tomb.

Archaeologists Discovered 4400-Years-Old High Priestess Tomb Near Cairo

By Leave a Comment

dwarf galaxies

Dwarf Galaxies Challenge the Entire Dark Matter Cosmology (Study)

By Leave a Comment

NASA Scientists and Food Experiments

NASA Scientists to Test if Astronauts Could Eat Their Own Poo

By Leave a Comment

KFC Smoky Wings Box Can Turn into Awesome Drone

By Leave a Comment

Tesla Model S

Tesla Model S Involved in Autopilot Malfunction Accident

By Leave a Comment

Duke Nukem.

John Cena Cold Feature in Duke Nukem Movie

By Leave a Comment

Battlefield One

Battlefield One Apocalypse DLC to Land in February

By Leave a Comment

Related Articles

  • eye procedure

    Queensland Mother Mutilated After Non-Invasive Eye Procedure Goes Sideways

  • HIV

    Northwest Arkansas Man Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison for Contracting HIV with the Purpose of Infecting Others

  • Meditation

    Yale Scientists Pinpointed the Brain Area for Spiritual Experiences

  • artificial intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Dermatologist in Melanoma Diagnosis

  • pill

    Arlington Doctor Gets 3 Years in Prison for Slipping Abortion Pill in Woman’s Tea

  • back of woman with short gray hair

    New Study Proposes Another Possible Cause for Gray Hair (Study)

  • two people jogging

    Being Physically Active Can Reportedly Make You Happier (Study)

  • OCD Twins Commit Suicide

    OCD Twins Committed Suicide, Freemont County Sheriff Confirms

  • fingerprint

    You Might Have Traces of Class A Drugs on Your Fingerprints

  • Bariatric surgery

    Star of ‘My 600-Lbs Life’ Dies of Heart Attack Following Bariatric Surgery

Categories

  • Business News
  • Entertainment
  • Featured
  • Health & Lifestyle
  • Nature
  • Politics & National
  • Sports
  • Tech & Science
  • US
  • World

Copyright © 2021 TheMonitorDaily.com

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Sitemap · Contact

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more.