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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Silver, Larry, 1947-

Contributor:

• University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• 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.
• Genre painting, Flemish.
• Landscape painting, Flemish.
• Art--Economic aspects.
• History.
• Art and society.
• Belgium--Antwerp.

Genre:

• Electronic books.
• History.
• Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages :) : illustrations

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

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.

Notes:

• OldControl:muse9780812207439.
• "Multi-User"
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-351) and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780812207439
• 0812207432

OCLC:

794700790

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.