hierarchy of genres

Genres

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The genres, or types of painting, were codified in the seventeenth century by the French Royal Academy. In descending order of importance the genres were History, Portrait, Genre, Landscape, and Still life. This league table, known as the hierarchy of the genres, was based on the notion of man the measure of all things – landscape and still life were the lowest because they did not involve human subject matter. History was highest because it dealt with the noblest events of human history and with religion.

1. Francesco Primaticcio (1504 – 1570)
2. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922Jean Pucelle (c. 1300 – 1355)
3. Quintilianus (ca. 35 – ca. 100)
4. Marcantonio Raimondi, also simply Marcantonio, (c. 1480 – c. 1534)
5. Raphael (1483 – 1520)
6. Rembrandt van Rijn ( 1606 – 1669)
7. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792)
8. Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460 – 1531)
9. Jan Frederik Rinke (1863 – 1922)
10. Cesare Ripa (c. 1560 - c. 1622)
11. Giulio Romano (c. 1499 – 1546)
12. Salvator Rosa (1615 – 1673)
13. Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (1494-1540)
14. Richard Royley ( d before 29 Sept 1589).
15. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640)
16. Giovanni Santi (c. 1435 – 1494)
17. Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913)
18. Roelant Savery (1576 - 1639
19. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)
20. Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – c. 1554)
21. Luca Signorelli (c. 1445 – 1523)
22. Veit Stoss ( before 1450 - 1533)
23. Théophile Thoré 1807 – 30 April 1869)
24. Tino di Camaino (c. 1280 – c. 1337)
25. Titian(c. 1473/1490^-1576^[2]
26. Cosme Tura (c. 1430 – 1495)
27. Paolo Uccello ( 1397 – 1475)
28. Vincent Willem van Gogh 1853 – 1890
29. Benedetto Varchi (1502/1503 - 1565)
30. Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574)
31. Otto van Veen,c. 1556, – 1629,)
32. Johannes Vermeer (baptized in Delft on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675)
33. Enea Vico (1523 – 1567)
34. Filippo Villani (fl. end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century)
35. Vitruvius (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC)
36. Jean-Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
    
37. Rogier van der Weyden(1399 or 1400 – 1464)
38. Heinrich Wolfflin( 1864 – 1945
39. Michael Zagrius ? no result
    
40. Federico Zuccaro 1542/1543 - 1609
41. Agrippa of nettesheim( 1486 – 1535)
42. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472)
43. Andrea del Sarto (1486 – 1531)
44. Sophonisba Anguissola 1532 – November 16, 1625)
45. Floris(1517 - October 1, 1570)
46. Aristotle(384 BC – 322 BC)
47. Claude Audran ?
    
48. Honore de Balzac(1799 – 1850)
49. Baccio Bandinelli(1493 – 1560)
50. Roland Barthes(1915 – 1980)
51. Cardinal Pietro Bembo(1470 - 1547)
52. Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1598 – 1680)
53. Charles Blanc 1813, - 1882,
54. Albert Blankert ? not found
    
55. Jan Borman ? not found
    
56. Jan Borman the Younger ? not found
    
57. Hienorymus Boschc. 1450 – , 1516)
58. Sandro Botticelli(c. 1445^-1510)
59. Francois Boucher(1703 –1770)
60. Abraham Bredius 1922
    
61. Pieter Bruegel the Elder(c. 1525 – 1569)
62. Pieter Bruegel the Younger (1564 – 1636)
63. Filippo Brunelleschi(1377 – 1446)
64. Maxime du Camp(1822 – 1894)
65. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610)
66. Jean Carondelet 1469 – 1545),
67. Giovanni Caroto 1480 – 1558)
68. Rosalba Carriera ( 1675 – 1757)
69. Théodore Géricault (1791 – 1824)
70. Edm Gersaint ? not found
    
71. Lorenzo Ghiberti (born Lorenzo di Bartolo) (1378 – 1455)
72. Francesco Castero ? not found
    
73. Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novilara (1478 – 1529)
74. Comte de Caylus 1692 – 1765),
75. Benvenuto Cellini (1500 – 1571)
76. Cennino Cennini (c. 1370 – c. 1440)
77. Alonso Chacon ? not sure(1540-1599)
78. Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)
79. Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue (c. 1240 — c. 1302)
80. Hieronymus Cock (Kock) (c. 1510–1570)
81. Pieter Coecke (1502 - 1550)
82. Ascanio Condivi (1525–1574)
83. Aelbrecht Cornelis ? no result
    
84. Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477)
85. Jacob van Cothem ? not found
    
86. Gustave Courbet ( 1819– 1877)
87. Louis Crepy
88. Christoforo dell Altissimo(1525–1605) found a christofano
    
89. Jan van Croes, not found
    
90. Antoine Crozat(ca. 1655 – 1738),
91. Cardinal Nicholas Cusa(1401 – 1464)
92. Dante Alighieri(c.1265 – 1321)
93. Eugene Delacroix 1798 – 1863
94. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466)
95. Albrecht Duerer(1471 –1528)
96. Desiderius Erasmus 1469,1536,
97. Ippolito d'Este 1479 – 1520
98. Isabella d'Este 1474– 1539)
99. Eupompus 4th century BC
    
100. Jan Van Eyck before c. 1395 – 1441)
101. Marsilio Ficino 1433 - 1499)
102. Filarete(c. 1400 - c. 1469)
103. Frans Floris(1517 - 1570)
104. Lavinia Fontana(1552 – 1614)
105. Francis I King of France 1494 – 1547)
106. Henry Clay Frick
107. Caspar David Friedrich
108. Artemisia Gentileschi
109. Claude Gillot
110. Giotto
111. Bishop Paolo Giorio
112. Vincenzo Giustiniani
113. Hubertus Goltzius
114. Edmont and Jules de Goncourt
115. Jan Gossaert
116. Lawrence Gowing
117. Cardinal Granvelle
118. Ludovico Guicciardini
119. Johannes Gutenberg
120. Henry Havard
121. Lucas de Heere
122. Frans Hogenberg
123. Hans Holbein
124. Pieter de Hooch
125. Horace
126. Arnold Houbraken
127. Gerard Johnson
128. Nicholaes Jonghelinck
129. Laureys Keldermans
130. Domenicus Lampsonius
131. Charles Le Brun
132. Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun
133. Jean Lemaire
134. Le Nain brothers
135. Leonardo da Vinci
136. Lambert Lombart
137. Ambrogio Lorenzetti
138. Pietro Lorenzetti
139. Louvain altarpiece
140. Luebeck altarpiece
141. karen Van Mander
142. Edouard Manet
143. Thomas Manners
144. First Earl of Rutland
145. Andrea Mantegna
146. Margaret of Austria
147. Simone Martini
148. Duke Cosimo I de medici
149. Medici family
150. Hans van Meegeren
151. Lippo Memmi
152. Gabriel Metsu
153. Buonarrotti Michelangelo
154. Frans van Mieris
155. Jan de Molder
156. Piet Mondrian
157. Jean Mone, Halle altarpiece
158. Abraham Ortelius
159. Joseph Paillet
160. Andrea Palladio
161. Erwin Panofsky
162. Richard Parker, tomb by
163. Peter Parler
164. Pheidias
165. Admirial Philip of Burgundy
166. Duke of Burgundy Philip the Good
167. Willibald Pirckheimer
168. Antonio Pisanello
169. Christophe Plantin
170. Plato
171. Pliny the Elder
172. Griselda Pollock

Raphael and Sodoma, The School of Athens

Rapher and Sodoma ''School of Athens''
1508-11
fresco, 770 cm at base, Stanza della Segnature, vatican, Rome

Filarete drawing

Filarete, rawing from his treatise on architecture, Virtue ont he roof, house of the archigtect, circa 1460, ink on paper, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice

Filarete Sait peter detail self portrait

Filarete and assistants, detail of bronze door St Peter rome
123 x 22 cm, 1433-45

Filarete and workship, bronze doors St Peter Rome

Filarete and workship, bronze doord
Saint Peter, Rome , 1433-45

Lorenzo Ghiberti, bronze doors

Lorenzo Ghiberti and workshop, bronze doors
1424-52, gilt bronze, Baptistery, Florence

Lorenzo Ghiberti, self-portrait

Lorenzo Ghiberti and assistants, Self-portrait
1424-52
gilt bronze
Baptistery, Florence

Raphael, The Dream of Scipio

Raphael ''The Dream of Scipio'' or ''An Allegory''
circa 1500-1
tempera on poplar, 17 x 17 cm
National Gallery, London

Pietro Lorenzetti: The Virgin and Child and Saints

Pietro Lorenzetti
''The Virgin and Child and Saints''
1320
tempera on panel
298 x 309 cm
Pieve, Arezzo

Pietro Lorenzetti: The Last Supper

Pietro Lorenzetti
The Last Supper
circa 1315-19
San Francesco Assisi

Pietro Lorenzetti: The Entry into Jerusalme

Pietro Lorenzetti ''The Entry into Jerusalem''
circa 1315-19
fresco
244 x 310 cm
north transept, Lower church, San Francesco, Assisi

Pietro Lorenzetti: San Francesco Assisi

Pietro Lorenzetti North transept, lower church San Francesco Assisi
frescoes, propably painted beore 1319

Pietro Lorenzetti: The Birth of the Virgin

Pietro Lorenzetti ''The Birth of the Virgin'',
1342
tempera on panel, 187 x 182 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Pietro Lorenzetti: The Crucifixtion

Pietro Lorenzetti
''The Crucifixion''
1320s
fresco, 309 x 393 cm
San Francesco, Siena

A.Lorenzetti: The Well-Governed city

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
''The Well-governed City'', detail of ''The effects of Good Gov in the City and Countryside''
Year: 1338-9
Width 1404 cm, east wall
Sala della Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

A.Lorenzetti: The Allegory of Good Government

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
''The Allegory of Good Government''
Year: 1338-9
Medium: fresco
Size: width 770 cm
Place: north wall, Sala della Pace, palazzo Pubblico, Siena

A.Lorenzetti: Saint Louis of Toulouse

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
''Saint Louis of Toulouse Performing Homage to Pope Boniface VIII''
Year: circa 1326-30
Medium: fresco
Size: width c.410 cm
Place: San Francesco, Siena

A.Lorenzetti: The martyrdom of fransiscans

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
The Martyrdom of Fransiscans at Ceuta
Year: circa 1326-30
Medium: fresco
Size: width c.338 cm
Place: San Fransesco, Siena

Vasari Adoration of the Magi

Giorgio Vasari,
''The Adoration of the Magi''
Year: 1547
Medium: oil and tempera on panel
Place: San Fortunato, Rimini

Lorenzetti: The Presentation in the Temple

Year: 1342
Medium: tempera on panel
Size: 257 x 188 cm
Place: Uffizzi Gallery,Florence

Martini/Memmi: The Annunciation with Two Saints (Ansanus and Massima)

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi
''The Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Massima''
Year: 1333
Medium: temmpera on panel
Size: 265 x 305 cm
Place: Uffizzi Gallery,Florence