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Images of a Golden Past: Dutch Genre Painting of the 17th Century Hardcover

Dutch Genre Painting of the 17th Century. The reasons for the popularity of genre painting in the Dutch Republic are complex. While it does, of course, reflect the ideas of Dutch Protestantism, which banished religious images from the churches and encouraged certain types of secular painting, it is also a consequence of a burgeoning art market and rising levels of affluence which permitted relatively humble people to buy paintings.

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Book Title	Images of a Golden Past: Dutch Genre Painting of t
Narrative Type	Nonfiction
Topic	Paintings
Format	Hardcover
Features	Dust Jacket
Author	Christopher Brown
Language	English
Publisher	Abbeville Press
Genre	Art & Culture

Abbeville Press(Non-Fiction, Art)Images of a Golden Past: Dutch Genre Painting of the 17th Century by Christopher BrownShop Villagelder's Books-N-GamesFrom the dust jacketGenre, one of the secular types of paintings including group portraits, town views, and church interiors, set the work of seventeenth-century artists on the Netherlands apart from that of their contemporaries elsewhere in Europe. The reasons for the popularity of genre painting in the Dutch Republic are complex. While it does, of course, reflect the ideas of Dutch Protestantism, which banished religious images from the churches and encouraged certain types of secular painting, it is also a consequence of a burgeoning art market and rising levels of affluence which permitted relatively humble people to buy paintings. The meticulously reproduced plates in Images of a Golden Past support author Christopher Brown's thesis that genre painting is a genuinely popular form of art, which, however, in the hands of a Vermeer or Terborch was capable of the very highest artistic achievement.