Peasant Scenes And Landscapes
Subtitle: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780812238686
Subjects: Domestic trade & commerce; Commerce; Belgium; Art; Business / Economics / Finance; Landscape painting, Flemish; Business Aspects; History; Economic aspects; 16th century; Antwerp; Genre painting, Flemish
First sentence: Modern viewers of art take for granted the conventional formulas of easel paintings that adhere to expectations of pictorial genre, such as landscape or "genre" painting (scenes of "daily life" and "ordinary" people).