Junko Aono Imitation and innovation
Dutch genre painting 1680-1750 and its reception of the Golden Age
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The aim of this study of genre painting from 1680 to 1750 is to understand the painters artistic intentions and professional choices by examing these in the context of the moment in which these paintings were produced and appreciated. Several case studies explore how painters inherited, up-dated and improved upon the pictorial tradition of seventeenth-century genre painting, and also how this was closely related to the taste of collectors, art theory and the artistic tendencies of the period.