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Description: | Genre painting was popularised in Italy by artists such as Giuseppe Maria Crespi, who defied the anti-genre strictures of the prevailing artistic theory in Italy in the early eighteenth century. The next generation of artists that followed his lead included Giambattista Piazzetta, Pietro Longhi and Giacomo Ceruti, and the genre became fairly widespread throughout the second half of the century. The chief exponents of the genre remained the Netherlandish painters resident in Rome known as the Bamboccianti. Here, three men are sitting at a table in the street playing cards. | Subjects: | everyday life (card game); figure (gentlemen) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8392... | Go to resource |
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