genre
(French, ‘kind’ or ‘type’)Originally, and still, used to denote different categories of painting—portraiture, landscape, still life, etc. More usually, however, it is now specifically associated with scenes of everyday life, especially those produced by the painters of 17th-century Holland such as ... ...
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