Bambocciade

Pieter van Laer : Landscape with Mora Players , 1st half of the 17th century. Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

Bambocciade (ital. Bambocciata ) was originally a derogatory term for a style of genre painting of Rome .

Image type

The first of the not very large-format Bambocciade pictures, which thematize scenes from popular life in a very crude way and contrast the “noble” Baroque classicism of the time, with figures of beggars, vagabonds and small craftsmen, came from the Dutch painter Pieter van Laer . Van Laer lived and worked in Rome and - as the legend tells - was called "Bamboccio" (rag doll) because of his appearance.

Bamboccianti

During his stay in Rome, a group of Flemish and Dutch painters called themselves "Bamboccianti" gathered around him. An important role model for the group alongside van Laer was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio .

The Bamboccianti were initially Andries , Jan Both , Karel Dujardin , Jan Miel , Johannes Lingelbach and the Italian Michelangelo Cerquozzi . The French Sébastien Bourdon was also associated with the loose artist group at the start of his career. Other Bamboccianti were Michiel Sweerts , Thomas Wijck , Dirck Helmbreker , Jan Asselijn , Anton Goubau , Willem Reuter and Jacob van Staverden .

Van Laer's style of painting has a long tradition and can be associated with Hieronymus Bosch , Adriaen van Ostade , David Ryckaert , David Teniers the Younger and David Teniers the Elder , among others .

Important representatives

• Pieter van Laer , founder of this style
• Michelangelo Cerquozzi
• Viviano Codazzi
• Aniello Falcone
• Jan Miel
• Johannes Lingelbach
• Michiel Sweerts

literature

• Giuliano Briganti, Ludovica Trezzani, Laura Laureati: The Bamboccianti. Pittori della vita quotidiana a Roma nel Seicento. Bozzi, Rome 1983, ISBN 88-7003-010-5 .
• David A. Levine, Ekkehard Mai (Ed.): I Bamboccianti. Dutch painter rebels in Baroque Rome. Electa Editrice, Milan 1991, ISBN 88-435-3604-4 (exhibition in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne and Centraal Museum of the City of Utrecht, Utrecht).
• Katharina Weick-Joch: Cultural Transfer in Rome in the 17th Century: The Painting of the Bamboccianti. arts + science, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-89739-848-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seymour Slive: Dutch painting. 1600-1800. Yale University Press, New Haven 1995, ISBN 0-300-06418-7 , pp. 236-237.