Terms of the Day for September 19

• Iconoclasm - the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.
• Genre – from the French word for “sort” or “kind”, genre refers to types of artworks, usually having to do with subject matter.  In the sixteenth century, several kinds of subjects became popular, including landscape, still life, portraits, mythologies, and scenes of everyday life.
• Genre painting – Paintings that focus specifically on the genre of everyday life.