painting of a folk scene
After Bamboccio, 'clumsy dork, crippled man, rag doll', the nickname of Pieter van Laer (Haarlem 1592-1642).
In the seventeenth century, the contemptuous expression bambochade denoted paintings that, in contrast to the canvases of the Baroque, exclusively depicted grotesque, popular scenes from everyday life: dice players, street vendors, troublemakers and drunkards.
Van Laer, pioneer in this genre, lived in Rome for more than ten years. He had a hunchback and his entire upper body was deformed. That earned him the nickname bamboccio, Bamboots.
It became the nickname for a whole group of mainly Dutch painters who no longer believed that painting was only suitable for depicting a sublime and idealized world. Around 1624 they founded a 'painters' ben' in Rome between the Via Marguta and the Via del Babuino.
Each painter who entered was given a nickname during a baptismal ceremony, which was performed under the eye of Bacchus with locks of wine. In addition to Bamboots Van Laer, Jan Asselijn, for example, who had a deformed hand, was given the stage name Crabbetje.
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