Modern 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-c…
"In Peasant Scenes and Landscapes, Larry Silver examines the emergence of pictorial kinds - scenes of taverns and markets, landscapes and peasants - and charts their evolution as genres from initial hybrids to more conventionalized artistic formulas. The relationship of these ne…
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.
