Sugar and art through time and across cultures

This activity introduces the idea that sugar was used to create sculptures during the Renaissance period and for the Day of the Dead.

This is the fourth activity in a series of resources designed around sugar. See the others below:

• Examining sugar using slow looking
• The origins of sugar
• Sugar’s history within the transatlantic slave trade
• Sugar tax: where health and politics meet

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