Style of painting linked with the ideals and 'sensibility' of the Victorian middle classes, in which domestic scenes with a moral, sentimental, historical or literary theme were popular.
The depiction of common, everyday life in art, as opposed to religious or portrait painting for example.
Painters considered genre painters include Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, and Jan Vermeer and were known for their realistic depiction of scenes from everyday life, characterized by the human interest and the minute detail of the paintings.
a genre depicting everyday life
A type of painting that portrays a phase of everyday life such as the interior of a room, a child at play or a person cooking.
painting that represents a phase or aspect of common everyday life and people.
A term used to loosely categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday life, including (among others) domestic interiors, merry companies, inn scenes, and street scenes.
This is a type of painting which depicts scenes from everyday life. One of the better known genre painters of all time was Jan Vermeer.
A realistic style of painting in which everyday life forms the subject matter, as distinguished from religious or historical painting.