genre painting

Noun

Meaning

a genre depicting everyday life

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Castagno demonstrates iconographic linkages between genre painting and the figures of the commedia dell'arte that demonstrate how this theatrical form was embedded within the cultural traditions of the late cinquecento. Source: Internet

Visual arts A genre painting (Peasant Dance, c. 1568, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder) The term "genre" is much used in the history and criticism of visual art, but in art history has meanings that overlap rather confusingly. Source: Internet

Sir Roy Strong calls this type of work the "Intimate Romantic", and in French it was known as the "peinture de genre historique" or "peinture anecdotique" ("historical genre painting" or "anecdotal painting"). Source: Internet

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