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unusual facts about genre scenes



Fancy pictures

Fancies was a term coined in 1737 by the art critic and historian George Vertue to describe genre scenes that also incorporated invented or imagined elements, or a storyline.

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.

Louis XIII style

Among the French painters who blended Italian mannerism with a love of genre scenes were Georges de La Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers.


see also

David Teniers

David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), the most famous of the three, especially noted for genre scenes of peasant life

David Teniers the Elder (1582–1649), turned from large religious paintings to landscapes and genre scenes

Egisto Lancerotto

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

Giovanni Michele Graneri

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

James Lawton Wingate

In 1874 he moved to Crieff and later to Muthill, painting rustic genre scenes and later increasingly impressionistic landscapes which made his reputation.

Johann Heinrich Roos

Among biblical, historical and genre scenes, Roos preferred subjects involving animals: the shepherds of the nativity, Venus and Adonis.

John Lewis Krimmel

Initially influenced by Scotland's David Wilkie, England's William Hogarth and America's Benjamin West, he soon turned to direct observation of life for his genre scenes.

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.

Lescot

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1784–1845), French painter, mainly of genre scenes

Maurice Prendergast

A trip to Venice in 1898 exposed him to the genre scenes of Vittore Carpaccio and encouraged him to experiment with even more complex and rhythmic arrangements.

Mosè Bianchi

Both places were to be featured also in later years in a series of intense views exhibited at exhibitions in Milan and Venice alongside genre scenes, views of Milan and landscapes of the countryside around Gignese.

Vrouw Maria

1870, as well as works by Cornelis Coedyk, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard Dou (a triptych of genre scenes bought for Fl. 14,100), Philip Wouwerman and one of the Ostade brothers.