Ep40 - As Art As Vinegar - Vinegar Art History

 

Cleopatra, 17th C, Elisabetta Sirani  (1638–1665) Flint Institute of Arts

 

Vinegar depictions range from fanciful stories relating to it, appearances in still life paintings to the different stages of its production and enjoyment. Vinegar is a symbol of preservation, of hard work and longevity and being cleansed. It’s found in religious stories, fables, stories of love, war, money and death…basically all aspects of the human experience. Featuring artworks such as the Three Vinegar Tasters, Parody of the Vinegar Tasters, Elisabetta Sirani's painting Cleopatra and the story of Cleopatra's banquet, plague doctors' masks and Four Thief Vinegar, Tête Noire vinegar, Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still Life with Mackerel, Film Fawn/Merecedes and more.

The Three Vinegar Tasters, the 16th-century Japanese painting by an artist of the Kanō school during the Muromachi period

'The Three Vinegar Tasters' by Kanō Isen'in, Edo period, c. 1802-1816, ink and color on paper, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 6156.1, between circa 1802 and circa 1816

Harris, Kate. “Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Three Vinegar Tasters Cartoon.” Smithsonian Learning Lab, Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology, 2 Mar. 2016, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/ll-c/vRERgAk93DAG38Rg#r/27773

The 1766 egoyomi, or 'picture' calendar, made from a colour woodblock is attributed to: Suzuki Harunobu and features Ono no Komachi, Yang Guifei and perhaps Murasaki Shikibu (Via: British Museum)

The Three Sake Tasters, Print artist: Okumura Masanobu (奥村政信) Inscription by: Ota Nanpo (大田南畝)
Yukun sennin 遊君仙人 (Courtesans - Immortals), 1710. (via: British Museum)

Cleopatra, 17th C, Elisabetta Sirani  (1638–1665) Flint Institute of Arts

Cleopatra by Francois Lemoyne (French, 1688–1737)

Cleopatra’s Banquet, Gerard de Lairesse, c 1675-1680 (Via: Rijks Museum)

Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr. Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem (‘Vos Creditis, als eine Fabel, / quod scribitur vom Doctor Schnabel’) in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. 1. Johannes Ebert and others, Europas Sprung in die Neuzeit, Die große Chronik-Weltgeschichte, 10 (Gütersloh: Wissen Media, 2008), p. 197. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3DVH8dVGkX0C&pg=PA197
2. Superstock: Dr. Schnabel of Rome, a Plague Doctor in 1656 Paul Fuerst Copper engraving (Stock Photo 1443-1112)

Vinaigre des 4 Voleurs dans la pharmacie de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Saint-Lizier (Ariège, France) (via: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierreg_09/8021092285/) PierreG_09

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, France) : A bottle for "Four Thief Vinegar" (or "Vinegar of the Four Thieves") at the Paul-Dupuy museum. Olybrius

Special physician clothes for preventing pestilence (Germany, XVII century) at Jena. Enciclopedia Libre en Español Author Juan Antonio Ruiz Rivas CC-BY-SA

Geran plague doctors mask, 1650-1750, Photographer: Cordia Schlegelmilch
(Via: DHM collection database)

Coronavirus: Hellesdon walker's plague doctor outfit 'terrifying kids' (Via: BBC)

 

Four Thieves Pub, 51 Lavender Gardens,, Battersea, London, SW11 1DJ
@fourthievespub

 

Negrita rum advert from the 1970s

Austrian Brewing company Mohrenbrauerei before and after logo

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Mackerel and painted in 1787

Images with permission of © Merecedes Nelson
http://doedeer.photography IG: film.fawn

Images with permission of © Merecedes Nelson
http://doedeer.photography IG: film.fawn

Images with permission of © Merecedes Nelson
http://doedeer.photography IG: film.fawn

Images with permission of © Merecedes Nelson
http://doedeer.photography IG: film.fawn