Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Genre or still-life pictures, including all subjects of a trivial, coarse, or common kind: so called in contempt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

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  • noun art The painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.

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  • The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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  • painting or description of mean or sordid things; still-life or genre painting.

    November 28, 2007

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    Loves rhyparography.

    It delights in terms for dirty and vile.

    July 9, 2014