# Dance in the Trattoria

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MIEL, Jan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miel-jan-r76583f77dc7458>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 67 cm

## Commentary

This painting is an example of the Bambocciata painted by Dutch artists in Rome. \(Bambocciata: genre scene of popular life in the suburbs of Rome made popular by the Netherlandish painter Pieter van Laer, known in Italy as Il Bamboccio.\) A Genoese nobleman commissioned Miel to paint scenes from the Roman carnival for his Roman apartment. In this canvas the painter set the popular characters of the Comedia dell&#39;Arte in a small trattoria.

## Related artworks

- [Carnival Time in Rome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miel-jan-r76583f77dc7458/carnival-time-in-rome-r1ccf72d7089d15>)
- [Ceres, Bacchus and Venus \(&#39;Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus&#39;\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miel-jan-r76583f77dc7458/ceres-bacchus-and-venus-sine-cerere-et-baccho-friget-venus-r57efa83a646070>)
- [Genre Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miel-jan-r76583f77dc7458/genre-scene-r76b9b3a7afef4c>)
- [Hunters at Rest](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miel-jan-r76583f77dc7458/hunters-at-rest-r053634dd64d3c7>)

## Attribution

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