Burgundian Dining

Joachim Beuckelaer, Woman Selling Vegetables and her Lover, 1567, Museum Snijders & Rockoxhuis, Antwerp.

Burgundian Dining explores the food and drink culture of the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. The exhibition unfolds like a four-course meal: from lavish banquets in city palaces and steaming kitchens filled with cooks and kitchen maids, to bustling markets and taverns, before ending with a delicate balance between abundance and scarcity. Where does enjoyment end and excess begins? Rich food and meagre fare, seasons of feasting and fasting: the table becomes a mirror in which we can examine ourselves.