Genre imagery in early modern Northern Europe: new perspectives

Contents

Genre : audience, origins, and definitions / Arthur J. DiFuria -- The value of play in early genre painting : Lucas van Leyden's card games / Jessen Kelly -- Moralizing dialogues on the Northern economy : women's directives in sixteenth-century genre imagery of the Antwerp marketplace / Annette LeZotte -- Jacques Jordaens's Twelfth Night politics / Irene Schaudies -- 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. Muller -- Adriaen van de Venne's Cavalier at a Dressing Table : masculinity and parody in seventeenth-century Holland / Martha Hollander -- Rembrandt and "everyday life" : the fusion of genre and history / Amy Golahny -- The rustic still life in Dutch genre painting : Bijwerck dat Verclaert -- Allison Kettering.