Database of pre-industrial utensils for art geeks

I'm a little late in posting this, but back in April, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam launched a new website that documents pre-industrial utensils and tools (a lot food-related) found in paintings and prints in their collection. The site is called ALMA (Afbeelding Linkt met Artefact). For example, it breaks down Pieter Aertsen's De pannekoeckebackerij [Pancake Bakery] (1560) by different utensils contained therein and links to historical/archaeological information for each artifact.



There are also essays, like this one on the history of the [primarily Netherlandish] frying pan.

Oh, and in case anyone who doesn't read Dutch stumbles on the Dutch language version of the site, you can switch to the English version via a link in the upper right corner of the page. I have the Dutch skills of a 4th grader, so I was thrilled to discover the English site...only three months after starting to read it.

Very very interesting. I'll bookmark it and look at it in more detail. Thx.

Cool beans! (in a manner of speaking). Thanks for posting this.