ARTH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch Empire, Niche Market

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 253
• Professor: Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Document Summary

The minor genres (cid:858)petits ge(cid:374)(cid:396)es(cid:863) a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to f(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)h a(cid:272)ade(cid:373)ie oyale. Lesser genres rated on worthiness of their subject, their amount of narrative content and their # of figures. 2 scenes of everyday life (aka genre scenes) The essential distinction is that major genre is narrative, and therefore intellectual, while the minor genres are merely mimetic. In holland artists need to make a living, dutch art market, domestic market. Lack of church commissions mean artist find work for domestic market. Some 65-750 painters working in the netherlands in 1650. Art sold in shops or on the open market, traded as a commodity. Availability to very wide selection of soc, hung on the walls of their homes. Fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:396)ealis(cid:373), a(cid:374) (cid:862)a(cid:396)t of des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)i(cid:374)g(cid:863), emphasis on close observation. Holla(cid:374)d had o(cid:374)e of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld(cid:859)s (cid:373)ost p(cid:396)ospe(cid:396)ous e(cid:373)pi(cid:396)es. Trading posts in indonesia, taiwan, other parts of asia. *claes jansz visscher, winter landscape with skaters, 1613, etching.