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Peasant scenes and landscapes : the rise of pictorial genres in the Antwerp art market /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silver, Larry, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Art and society > Belgium > Antwerp > History > 16th century.
Art > Economic aspects > Belgium > Antwerp > History > 16th century.
Landscape painting, Flemish > Belgium > Antwerp > 16th century.
Genre painting, Flemish > Belgium > Antwerp > 16th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Cultural selection" and the origins of pictorial species.
  • Antwerp as a cultural system.
  • Town and country: painted worlds of early landscapes.
  • Money matters.
  • Kitchens and markets.
  • Labor and leisure: the peasant.
  • Second Bosch: family resemblance and the marketing of art.
  • Descent from Bruegel I: from Flanders to Holland.
  • Descent from Bruegel II: Flemish friends and family.
  • Trickle-down genres: the "curious" cases of flowers and seascapes.
  • Conclusions: Value and values in the capital of capitalism.