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208 notes to pages 106–107
2. Ibid., pp. 18–21.
3. In the estate inventories in Stappaerts 1987–88, rooms are generally designated
by their location in the house, very seldom by function. See also
Martens and Peeters 2002, p. 878. The major exception is the kitchen.
4. Iain Buchanan, “The Collection of Niclaes Jongelinck II: The ‘Months’
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder,” Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 541–550, esp.
549. For Beuckelaer, see Hans Buijs, “Voorstellingen van Christus in het
huis van Martha en Maria in het zestiende-eeuwse keukenstuk,” in Pieter
Aertsen. Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 40 (1989): 93–128, esp. 111; for the
panels: Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Joachim Beuckelar: het markten
keukenstuk in de Nederlanden 1550–1650, 1986, pp. 124–128, cat. nos. 8–11. Buijs
notes that images of biblical banquets, such as the Marriage Feast at Cana,
as well as Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, survive as decoration
in several monastery refectories ( pp. 110–111). As it happens, Noirot
owned a large painting “named the kitchen of Martha,” presumably a Christ
in the House of Mary and Martha, but it apparently hung “in the room above
the salon,” use unknown, in company with the Diana and Acteon and a Peasant
Kermis by Bruegel, among other pictures (Smolderen 1995, p. 38).
5. These suggestions for the placement of Bruegel’s Months and the market
and kitchen scenes of Aertsen and Beuckelaer find a parallel in the series
of erotic market scenes painted in 1580–81 for the dining room in the house
of Hans Fugger, Schloss Kirchheim; see Barry Wind, “Vicenzo Campi and
Hans Fugger: A Peep at Late Cinquecento Bawdy Humor,” Arte Lombarda,
n.s., 47–48 (1977): 108–114. I am grateful to Professor Wind for calling
my attention to his article.
6. Goldstein 2003, p. 52.
7. Literally, “to finish oª the stomach”; see the summary of courses in
Vorselman-Cockx-Indestege 1971, pp. 264–265. Goldstein 2003, p. 269,
suggests that banquets in Noirot’s house ceased after 1567–68, due to his
increasing financial problems.
8. For the wines imported into the Netherlands in Bruegel’s lifetime, see J. A.
Goris, Étude sur les colonies marchandes méridionales (Portugais, Espagnols, Italiens) à
Anvers de 1488 à 1567. Contribution à l’histoire des débuts du capitalisme moderne, 2 vols.
in 1 (New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.), pp. 256–258. The household accounts
of William of Orange for 1553–54 indicate the great variety of foreign wines
then available (Delen 2002, pp. 149–150). See also Jervis Wegg, Antwerp,
1477–1559: From the Battle of Nancy to the Treaty of Cateau Cambrésis (London: