Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the life of the genre hierarchy in order.
- A middle-class market for domestic pictures expands
- Nochlin asks why there have been no great women artists
- Landscape and still life carry the most ambitious painting
- Félibien sets out the ranking for the French Academy
- Dutch painting is rediscovered and admired in France
Hints
- The ranking is established in the seventeenth century.
- Nochlin's essay is the most recent, from 1971.
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- Félibien sets out the ranking for the French Academy
- Dutch painting is rediscovered and admired in France
- A middle-class market for domestic pictures expands
- Landscape and still life carry the most ambitious painting
- Nochlin asks why there have been no great women artists
Why
The last item belongs on the same timeline because it asks about the machinery the first item built. Nochlin's essay is a question about institutions — training, access, prizes — and the hierarchy is where those institutions got their shape.
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