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Genre Painting is the painting of everyday scenes from featuring ordinary people at work or relaxing, depicted in a normal and realistic style. With this approach, Genre Painting is about observation of costumes, roles and settings. The French Academy placed it as the third most significant in its hierarchy of paintings – behind History painting and Portraiture.
Genre painting 1500 -1659
Northern Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque,
Bolognese School and Dutch Golden Age
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 Money Lender… |  Mad Meg |  Peasant Wedding |
 Ho. of Levi Feast |  Butcher’s Shop |  Waterseller |
 Officer and girl |  Las Meninas |  Milkmaid |
Genre painting 1660 -1851
Dutch Golden Age, Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism
and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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 Music Lesson |  Art of Painting |  Astronomer |
 Lady at Virginal |  Luncheon of Ham |  Milkmaid Garland |
 Sunday Stroll |  Rain Steam Speed |  Hireling Shepherd |
Genre painting 1851 – 1870
Neoclassicism, Barbizon School, Impressionism,
Realism and Peredvizhniki
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Genre painting 1871 – 1885
Impressionism and Realism,
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Genre painting 1886 – 1909
Impressionism, Picasso-1890s, Naive Art, Picasso-Blue, Picasso-Early, Divisionism, Picasso-Rose and Cubism
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 Cafe Terrace |  Night Café |  Il Picador |
 Child’s bath |  Sleeping gypsy |  Two sisters |
 Acrobats Monkey |  Madwoman |  Desmoiselles |
Genre painting 1910 –
Bloomsbury Group, Ashcan School, Expressionism, Russian avant-garde, Die Brucke, Cos Cob Colony and Realism
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 Lemon Gatherers |  Men of the Docks |  Berlin Street |
 Cliff Dwellers |  The Cyclist |  Fifth Avenue |
 The Tub |  NY Apartment |  Figure Window |
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