Group picture
A group picture (also known as a group portrait or group portrait ) is the representation of several people who are connected to one another as a family, as notable persons or through their occupation.
The family picture was created in the 15th century from depictions of the Holy Family and has survived into the 20th century. The preliminary stages in the representation of people with the same occupation or a common profession are the images of spiritual brotherhoods .
The group painting experienced a particular heyday in Dutch painting of the 17th century. The genres of corporation image (e.g. doctors), rifle pieces (members of a rifle guild) and group representations of the heads of a guild emerged. Group portraits of notables in particular in the Dutch painting of the late 16th and 17th century Regent piece called.
Family picture by Goya
Rembrandt's shooting piece
literature
- Alois Riegl : The Dutch group portrait , in: Yearbook of the very highest imperial family, 1902, pp. 71–278 ( online )
Individual evidence
- ^ Regentenstück in: The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann
