Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe

Arthur J. DiFuria is Professor of Early Modern Northern European Drawings, Prints, and Paintings at Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPreface and Acknowledgements1 Genre: Audience, Origins, and Definitions Arthur J. DiFuria2 The Value of Play in Early Genre Painting: Lucas van Leyden’s Card Games Jessen Kelly3 Moralizing Dialogues on the Northern Market Economy: Women’s Directives in Sixteenth-Century Genre Imagery of the Antwerp Marketplace Annette LeZotte4 Jacques Jordaens’s Twelfth Night Politics Irene Schaudies5 For the Pleasure and Contentment of the Audience: Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Merry Fiddler: Promoting Civil Behavior in Early Seventeenth-Century Utrecht Sheila D. Muller6 Adriaen van de Venne’s Cavalier at a Dressing Table: Masculinity and Parody in Seventeenth-Century Holland Martha Hollander 7 Rembrandt and "Everyday Life": The Fusion of Genre and History Amy Golahny8 The Rustic Still Life in Dutch Genre Painting: Bijwerck dat Verclaert Alison M. KetteringIndex

"The essays collected in this book all make contributions to ongoing scholarly debates concerning the nature and reception of genre imagery in early modern Northern Europe." - CAA Reviews"Arthur J. DiFuria's edited volume offers a welcome and important collection of new viewpoints on the origins of these pictures and their social functions within early modern culture. Notably, it aims to move beyond the interpretive binary of genre images as either 'slices of life' or 'repositories of "disguised symbols,"' especially prevalent in the study of Netherlandish art, in search of more nuanced interpretations." - Historians of Netherlandish Art