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Pasta Eater: Allegory of Taste,
ca.1660
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634–1705
y1985-35
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Title
Pasta Eater: Allegory of Taste
Dates
ca.1660
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.5 × 74 cm (36 × 29 1/8 in.)
frame: 112.1 × 94.6 × 7.6 cm (44 1/8 × 37 1/4 × 3 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1985-35
Culture
Type
Subject
Private collection, New York (by 1984); Piero Corsini, London and New York (in 1985; sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Oreste Ferrari, Luca Giordano, (Napoli: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1966)., Vol. 2: p. 26
- Nicola Spinosa, La Pittura napoletana del '600, (Milano: Longanesi, 1984)., no. 430
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 74
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42, pp. 16–17 (illus.)
- Oreste Ferrari and Guiseppe Scavizzi, Luca Giordano: l’opera completa, (Napoli: Electa, 1992)., Vol. 1: no. A133
