Sevilla’s cathedral in the news

[peregrina2000]

This is (IMO at least) a very interesting article about the unusual carvings of plates of food in Sevilla’s cathedral. I confess I haven’t spent enough time in that cathedral to have noticed it, but it looks like a must-see for my next Vdlp, whenever that may be!

Revealed: the secrets of Seville cathedral’s banquet set in stone

Painstaking research deciphers carvings of religious bounty dating back almost five centuries

www.theguardian.com

 

[Former member 91017]

Thank you! I think that's a wonderful reminder to look at the details. Nothing was ever "wasted" in communicating ideas in these spaces. But sometimes (too often) we are rushing through...

 

[mspath]

This is (IMO at least) a very interesting article about the unusual carvings of plates of food in Sevilla’s cathedral. I confess I haven’t spent enough time in that cathedral to have noticed it, but it looks like a must-see for my next Vdlp, whenever that may be!

Revealed: the secrets of Seville cathedral’s banquet set in stone

Painstaking research deciphers carvings of religious bounty dating back almost five centuries

www.theguardian.com

The hyper realism of those filled plates of food in Seville is similar to the 16thc. filled ceramic plates Bernard Palissy made in the Tuileries garden Paris. All such wares had and hid contemporary histories. Read more in this earlier thread

 

[Ronald Boivin]

This is (IMO at least) a very interesting article about the unusual carvings of plates of food in Sevilla’s cathedral. I confess I haven’t spent enough time in that cathedral to have noticed it, but it looks like a must-see for my next Vdlp, whenever that may be!

Revealed: the secrets of Seville cathedral’s banquet set in stone

Painstaking research deciphers carvings of religious bounty dating back almost five centuries

www.theguardian.com

Maybe it’s because I really crave anything Camino but this fascinating article ethereally brought me to behold the culinary wonders in the cathedral…. One I never physically visited. Gracias