1.   And the genre paintings that follow are shot through with moralizing, often cautionary, messages.

2.   De Hooch did not invent genre painting, but he literally gave it a new dimension.

3.   Mount more or less invented American genre painting, with its emblematic narratives of everyday life.

4.   Similarly, in his genre paintings, he avoids the noisy splashes of light favored by Vermeer for quieter tones of color.

5.   The nose-tickling child, borrowed from Dutch genre painting, may stand for reformist forces threatening to awaken the black slave to a dangerous self-awareness.

6.   The results are part genre painting, part hallucinatory reportage, part fairy tale.

7.   There were picturesque genre paintings depicting peasants and chambermaids, to be seen at the public salons, if anyone thought to bring a girl to them.

8.   Throughout his career Vermeer stuck to the same devices within the modest conventions of genre painting.