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genre paintingPainting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people at work or play, depicted in a realistic manner. In the 18th century, the term was used derogatorily to describe painters specializing in one type of picture, such as flowers, animals, or middle-class life. By the mid-19th century it was being used more approvingly, and it is still popularly used to describe works by 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters such as Jan Steen, Gerard Terborch, Adriaen van Ostade, and Johannes Vermeer, and later masters such as J.-B.-S. Chardin in France, Pietro Longhi in Italy, and George Caleb Bingham in the U.S. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From ancient times and particularly during the development of genre painting in the Middle Ages and later, food--its appearance, abundance, or decay--has been a popular subject. Seventeenth-century Dutch images of domestic interiors, the settings of both genre paintings and many portraits, have in our own time become almost synonymous with "home. AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO SEE MUCH of the best painting done in eighteenth-century France begins this summer in Ottawa at the National Gallery of Canada: "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. |
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