Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrat

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This volume looks at the techniques and materials that artists have utilized since the Renaissance to create spectacular light effects in drawings. The treatmen