To the many banquet and breakfast scenes produced worldwide. However, when it comes to other types of still life paintings, such as still life’s, Andrey Voronovich proposes that the ‘seeming realism’, that is, the symbolic significance, should be noted.

Regarding the banquet and breakfast scenes, some scholars go as far as saying that the lifelikeness of the edible goods prevent the viewer from admiring and scrutinizing the symbolic element of breakfast and banquet still life paintings, as they excite the viewer’s appetite too much– evidently, ‘first we eat, then we do everything else’– an important life lesson for gallery goers.