 | Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market Subjects: Genre painting Flemish -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- 16th century; Landscape painting Flemish -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- 16th century; Art -- Economic aspects -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century; Art and society -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History --; Larry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles. Larry Silver is Farquhar Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including Rembrandt and Art in History, and coeditor (with Jeffrey Chipps Smith) of The Essential Durer, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
