Bamboccianti

The Bamboccianti were genre painters active in Rome from approximately 1625 until the end of the seventeenth century. Most were Dutch and Flemish artists who brought with them to Italy existing traditions of depicting peasant subjects drawn from sixteenth-century Netherlandish art, and they generally created small cabinet paintings or etchings of the everyday life of the lower classes in Rome and its countryside. Typical subjects include food and beverage sellers, farmers and milkmaids at work, soldiers at rest and play, and beggars – or, as Salvator Rosa lamented in the mid‑seventeenth century, "rogues, cheats, pickpockets, bands of drunkards and gluttons, scabby tobacconists, barbers, and other 'sordid' subjects." Despite their lowly subject matter, these works found favour among elite collectors and commanded high prices.¶

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Bamboccianti is followers of Pieter van Laer and other Bentvueghels in Rome, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

The source record links this tradition to 15 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.¹¶