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unusual facts about Genre painting



Antonio Rinaldo

Antonio Rinaldo (Tremona, 1816 – Tremona, 27 September, 1875) was an Italian-Swiss painter, painting mainly of genre, but also of religious subjects.

Archibald Motley

He found in the artwork there a formal sophistication and maturity that could give depth to his own work, particularly in the Dutch painters and the genre paintings of Delacroix, Hals, and Rembrandt.

Augusto De Arcangelis

Augusto De Arcangelis (born in Lanciano, Province of Chieti, June 22, 1868) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Naples, depicting genre subjects and landscapes.

Egisto Lancerotto

Egisto Lancerotto (Noale, August 21, 1847 – Venice, May 31, 1916) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre scenes of Venice.

Frans Francken the Younger

He also invented or popularized several new themes that became popular in Flemish painting, such as genre scenes populated by monkeys (later followed by Jan van Kessel and David Teniers the Younger) and Kunstkamer or gallery paintings displaying a wealth of natural and artistic treasures against a neutral wall.

Georges Lallemand

His work is mostly known from a series of chiaoscuro woodcuts made by Ludolph Büsinck in the 1620s after his smaller religious and genre compositions.

Giovanni Michele Graneri

Giovanni Michele Graneri (Turin, 1708 - Turin, 1762) was a painter of genre scenes or Bamboccio scenes.

Giuseppe Caletti

He often painted religious themes in a genre like dress and surroundings, including the theme of Bacchanalia like Titian.

Jean-Louis de Marne

He concentrated on landscape and genre painting, in which he was greatly influenced by such 17th century Dutch masters as Aelbert Cuyp, the van Ostade brothers, Paulus Potter, Adriaen van de Velde and Karel Dujardin, all artists enjoying a tremendous vogue and high prices in Paris at that time.

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

She specialised in highly sentimental domestic and genre scenes of women and children, often in Dutch 17th-century settings and style, like Love's Beginning, Hush-a-bye, The Carol, At the Doorway (c.1898, shown right) and Sunshine.

Philip Richard Morris

Philip Richard Morris (Devonport 4 December 1836 – 22 April 1902, 92 Clifton Hill, Maida Vale, London) was an English painter of genre and maritime scenes (particularly allegorical ones of rural life), Holman Hunt-influenced religious paintings and (later in his career) portraits.


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Genre art

Subsequently the Impressionists, as well as such 20th-century artists as Pierre Bonnard, Edward Hopper, and David Park painted scenes of daily life, but in the context of modern art the term "genre painting" has come to be associated mainly with painting of an especially anecdotal or sentimental nature, painted in a traditionally realistic technique.

The works of American painter Ernie Barnes (1938–2009) and those of illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) could exemplify a more modern type of genre painting.