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Genre
In painting and graphic arts, images which depict scenes of common daily life, which were particularly popular and important in the art of seventeenth century holland; more broadly the term designates a category of artworks based on conventions of style or subject, as, for example, portraits, landscapes and still lifes in painting, or romances, westerns and detective novels in popular fiction.
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