1.9.4.1 History Painting digest

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Raphael: School of Athens	Da Vinci: The Last Supper
Copley: Death, Major Pierson	Delacroix: Liberty leading…

History in this context is taken from the Italian word istoria or narrative. The term history painting is therefore a painting with a narrative, this was initially about Biblical characters and events, but during and following the Renaiassance, when religious commissions plummeted, the category took on mythical individuals and events, and real events like battles. History Painting is usually upon a large-scale mural, panel or canvas to better present the often-heroic narrative.

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1616-1640 1641-1749 1750-1830 1831-1900 1901- [1300]

History Painting 1300-1449
Sienese School, Early Renaissance and Northern Renaissance
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Duccio Madonna	Giotto Entomb…	Duccio Maestà
Giotto Madonna	Campin Entomb…	van Eyck Altar
v. Eyck Madonna	Weyden Descent	v. Eyck Church

[1450]

History Painting 1450-1484
Renaissance, Venetian School and High Renaissance
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Francesca Legend	Donatello Penitent	Francesca Christ
Messina Thorns	da Vinci Annunc…	Mantegna Lament
Perugino Keys	Bosch Last Judg…	Botticeli Venus

[1485]

History Painting 1485-1520
High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Dürer Horsemen	Raphael Madonna	Michelangelo…
Michelangelo…	Raphael School…	Raphael Sistine…
Pontormo…	Titian Assumption	Pontormo Saints

[1521]

History Painting 1521-1559
High Renaissance, Mannerism and Northern Renaissance
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Titian Bacchus	Correggio Virgin	Cranach Apollo
Pontormo Depstn	Correggio Leda	Holbein Ambasdrs
Parmigianino…	Bronzino Venus	Titian Diana

[1560]

History Painting 1560-1599
Mannerism and Baroque
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Allori Susanna	Bruegel Babel	Tintoretto Cross
El Greco Disrobing	El Greco Burial…	Tintoretto Last S…
Medusa	El Greco Madonna	Judith

[1600]

History Painting 1600-1615
Baroque and Bolognese School
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

St Matthew	Emmaus Supper	Carracci Pietà
Domenchino	Rubens Samson	David Goliath
Rubens Massacre	Gentileschi	Rubens Daniel

[1616]

History Painting 1616-1640
Baroque and Dutch Golden Age
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Rubens Education	de Zurbarán…	Anatomy Lesson
Velázquez…	Gallilee Storm	Poussin Sabines
Rubens Venus	Ribera Trinity	Poussin Arcadia

[1641]

History Painting 1641-1749
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age and Rococo
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

The Night Watch	Bathsheba…	Francis of Assissi
Cloth-Makers	de Witte Church	Tiepolo Abraham
Rake’s Progress	Boucher Diana	Tiepolo Cleopatra

[1750]

History Painting 1750-1830
Rococo, Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Palmyra found…	Last Judgement	David Belisarus
David Sabines	David Napoleon	Géricault Chasseur
Third of May 1808	Goya Saturn	Delacroix Liberty

[1831]

History Painting 1831-1900
Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Aesthetic, Arts & Crafts…
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Turner Temeraire	Crossing Delaware	Ingres Joan of Arc
Degas Class	Cotton Office	Reconnaissance
Cophetua	Execution	Klimt Athene

[1901]

History Painting 1901-
Art Nouveau, Realism, Cubism, Surrealism, Socialist Realism…
Note: the image sources are accredited at the linked page

Beardsley Salome	Dempsey v Firpo	Ecce Homo
Wood Revere	Picasso Guernica	Dali Narcisse
Hopper Gas	Dong Xiwen	Don Quizote

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