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

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Main Author: Silver, Larry, 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
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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.