The Dutch painters of the golden age turned to realism instead of religious subjects, as portrait painting was much more lucrative. Baroque Dutch genre paintings tend to illustrate everyday life at all levels of society, and cats, essential to most households, are often in these still lifes and portraits. In The Katzen Familie (1650), the […]
CATS IN BAROQUE PAINTINGS (Part 2)
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