Bamboccianti

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The Bamboccianti were a group of Dutch genre painters active in Rome from 1625 - 1700, during the high and late Baroque. The themes of their canvases were typically small cabinet paintings or etchings of everyday life, including peasants in picaresque activities or other scenes of daily life.

The name originated from the nickname "Bamboccio" allotted to the Dutch painter Pieter van Laer during his stay in Italy (1625-1639 ), a nickname which it owed as much with his topics as with his physical aspect. In Italian, Bamboccio means, "puppet". The group included Andries Both, Karel Dujardin, Jan Miel, Johannes Lingelbach, and Jan Asselyn, and among the Italians, Viviano Codazzi (1611-72) and Michelangelo Cerquozzi (1602-1660). Dutch painters in Rome organized a guild called the Schildersbent.

Other later Bamboccianti include Jacques Callot, David Teniers, Adriaen Van Ostade, Adriaen Brouwer, Theodor Helmbrecker (1633-1696); and even Sebastien Bourdon. They were to influence Rococo artists such as Antonio Cifrondi, Pietro Longhi, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giacomo Ceruti, Alessandro Magnasco, and others.

• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). “4”, Pelican History of Art, Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750, 1980, Penguin Books Ltd, p 323.