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Author Silver, Larry, 1947-

Title Peasant scenes and landscapes [electronic resource] : the rise of pictorial genres in the Antwerp art market / Larry Silver.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.

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Description xvii, 373 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-351) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Genre painting, Flemish -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- 16th century.
Landscape painting, Flemish -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- 16th century.
Art -- Economic aspects -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century.
Art and society -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0812238680 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812238686
9780812222111
9780812207439 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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