ARTH 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: History Painting, Making Money, Another Woman
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He was critical of connoisseurs, for example: his approach was topical and related to the idea of elevating artistic subject matter at the same time. Incorporates pictures within pictures: people appreciated this, because those who could understand the work meant that was a source of status, his father was high in debt and was forced into prison. In the background there is construction of some sort. He is playing with a doll, half stag half man, which is a symbol of cuckoldry, which is what the mistress is doing with her husband, as she is shown having an affair with the man, On the left there is a portrait of the lawyer, and also the rape of ganyemede. Over the door there is a painting of a courtesan, which is. Sociability refers to an increase in the emphasis on social life, and how it implicates things like politics and other decisions.