Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art MarketModern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting and the emerging new medium of engraving began to depart from traditional visual culture, which had been defined primarily by wall paintings, altarpieces, and portraits of the elite. New genres and new media arose simultaneously in this volatile commercial and financial capital of Europe, home to the first open art market near the city Bourse. The new pictorial subjects emerged first as hybrid images, dominated by religious themes but also including elements that later became pictorial categories in their own right: landscapes, food markets, peasants at work and play, and still-life compositions. In addition to being the place of the origin and evolution of these genres, the Antwerp art market gave rise to the concept of artistic identity, in which favorite forms and favorite themes by an individual artist gained consumer recognition. |
Contents
Cultural Selection and the Origins of Pictorial Species | 1 |
2 Antwerp as a Cultural System | 16 |
Painted Worlds of Early Landscapes | 26 |
4 Money Matters | 53 |
5 Kitchens and Markets | 87 |
The Peasant | 103 |
Family Resemblance and the Marketing of Art | 133 |
From Flanders to Holland | 161 |
Flemish Friends and Family | 186 |
The Curious Cases of Flowers and Seascapes | 208 |
Value and Values in the Capital of Capitalism | 226 |
Notes | 235 |
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Acknowledgments | 371 |
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