
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes : The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market.
Title:
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes : The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market.
Author:
Silver, Larry.
ISBN:
9780812207439
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Tittle -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: ''Cultural Selection'' and the Origins of Pictorial Species -- 2 Antwerp as a Cultural System -- 3 Town and Country: Painted Worlds of Early Landscapes -- 4 Money Matters -- 5 Kitchens and Markets -- 6 Labor and Leisure: The Peasant -- 7 Second Bosch: Family Resemblance and the Marketing of Art -- 8 Descent from Bruegel I: From Flanders to Holland -- 9 Descent from Bruegel II: Flemish Friends and Family -- 10 Trickle-Down Genres: The ''Curious'' Cases of Flowers and Seascapes -- 11 Conclusions: Value and Values in the Capital of Capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Larry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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