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genre painting

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Noun1.genre paintinggenre painting - a genre depicting everyday life      
genre - a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique


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From ancient times and particularly during the development of genre painting in the Middle Ages and later, food--its appearance, abundance, or decay--has been a popular subject.
Genre painting and the world's kitchen by Potter, Polyxeni / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Seventeenth-century Dutch images of domestic interiors, the settings of both genre paintings and many portraits, have in our own time become almost synonymous with "home.
An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century ... by Adams, Ann Jensen / Renaissance Quarterly
AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO SEE MUCH of the best painting done in eighteenth-century France begins this summer in Ottawa at the National Gallery of Canada: "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting.
Domestic bliss: Thomas Crow on "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and ... by Crow, Thomas / Artforum International
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