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How many ranks did Félibien's hierarchy of genres contain?
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- From history painting down to still life.
- Five.
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5
Why
Five: history painting, portrait, genre scene, landscape and still life. The ordering runs by how much human action and invention each was held to require, which is a single consistent criterion, and why the scheme held together for two centuries.
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