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  • 31genre — [[t]ʒɒ̱nrə[/t]] genres N COUNT A genre is a particular type of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form which people consider as a class because it has special characteristics. [FORMAL] ...his love of films and novels in the horror… …

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  • 32genre —    (ZHANH reu) [French: genus; sort; kind] A category of artistic or literary works that have distinct form, content, or style, as the genre of film noir. Also used to describe a realistic style of painting that focuses on everyday life.    But… …

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  • 33Painting —    The work of the Flemish Primitives is represented in Brussels by Rogier van der Weyden, named town painter in 1436. Weyden developed a schoo1 around him that included Vrancke van der Stockt, Colijn de Coter, and Pieter van der Weyden. Artists… …

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  • 34genre — gen•re [[t]ˈʒɑn rə[/t]] fr. [[t]ˈʒɑ̃ rə[/t]] n. pl. res ( rəz; Fr. rə), adj. 1) lit. a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like 2) fia painting in which scenes of everyday life form the… …

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  • 35genre — noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, kind, gender more at gender Date: 1770 1. a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content 2. kind, sort 3. painting that depicts scenes or… …

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  • 36Painting —    In the cities of the northern parts of the Low Countries, painters were already active during the Middle Ages. Haarlem, Leiden, and ’s Hertogenbosch were centers of the arts in the 15th century, with painters such as Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c …

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  • 37genre — [ ʒɒgenrerə, (d)ʒɒnrə] noun 1》 a style or category of art or literature. 2》 [as modifier] denoting a style of painting depicting scenes from ordinary life. Origin C19: Fr., lit. a kind (see gender) …

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  • 38genre —   n. kind; style; realistic painting of everyday scenes …

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  • 39Dutch Golden Age painting — Dutch Masters redirects here. For the cigar, see Dutch Masters (cigar). Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid (1658–1660) Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history generally spanning the 17th century,[ …

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  • 40Flemish Baroque painting — is the art produced in the Southern Netherlands between about 1585, when the Dutch Republic was split from the Habsburg Spain regions to the south by the recapturing of Antwerp by the Spanish, until about 1700, when Habsburg authority ended with… …

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