Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800

About CalaresuDr Melissa CalaresuDr Victoria AveryVictoria Avery

Victoria Avery is Keeper of Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has researched lectured and published extensively on many aspects of European sculpture and the decorative arts. Her publications include Vulcans Forge in Venus City: The Story of Bronze in Venice 1350-1650 (OUP 2011; awarded Premio Salimbeni 2012); Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (PWP 2015; co-edited with Melissa Calaresu and Mary Laven) and Michelangelo Sculptor in Bronze (PWP 2018; editor and contributing author). Melissa Calaresu is the Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. She has written on the cultural history of the Grand Tour urban space ice cream and street-vending in early modern Italy with a particular focus on Naples. She is co-editor of Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (2010) New Approaches to Naples c.1500c.1800: The Power of Place (2013) and Food Hawkers: Selling in the Street from Antiquity to the Present Day (2015). With Victoria Avery and Mary Laven she also co-edited Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (PWP 2015) which accompanied the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition.