Practice question · True or false
Dutch seventeenth-century painting had already inverted the academic hierarchy in practice.
Hints
- Consider what Dutch painters actually produced in quantity.
- Landscape, still life and genre scenes dominated the market.
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True
Why
True. Landscape, still life and genre scenes dominated Dutch production and its market, in a society without a court academy imposing a ranking. Its rediscovery in the nineteenth century supplied a precedent for painters who wanted the hierarchy gone, a whole tradition of major achievement in the genres Félibien had placed last.
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