Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting
Subtitle: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: July 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780300102376
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Painting & paintings; c 1600 to c 1700; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Netherlands; European; History - General; Techniques - Painting; Art / History / European; 17th century; Genre painting, Dutch
Description: "The author approaches genre paintings from a variety of perspectives, examining their reception among contemporary audiences and setting the works in their political, cultural, and economic contents. The works emerge as distinctly conventional images, Franits shows, as genre artists continually replicated specific styles, motifs, and a surprisingly restricted number of themes over the course of several generations. Illustrated and with a full representation of the major artists and the cities where genre painting flourished, this book will interest students, scholars, and general readers alike."--BOOK JACKET.