Studio of Martin van Meytens: The Coronation Banquet of Joseph II in the Römer in Frankfurt (detail), from the cycle ‘The Coronation of Joseph II at Frankfurt in 1764’, oil painting, after 1764

Studio of Martin van Meytens: The Coronation Banquet of Joseph II in the Römer in Frankfurt (detail), from the cycle ‘The Coronation of Joseph II at Frankfurt in 1764’, oil painting, after 1764
In the strictly hierarchical societies of past centuries every class had its own ways of expressing itself, whether it was a matter of consumption, manners, in everyday life or on special occasions, with the culture of ...