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Meanings of historical art in English

Russian
историческая живопись
Portuguese
pintura histórica
Spanish
pinturas de historia
Catalan
pintura d'història
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Genre in painting defined by historical matter (see also religious painting and mythological painting)

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историческая живопись
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Examples for "history painting"
Examples for "history painting"
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The Triumph of Death is unmistakably a war painting, a history painting.
The Guardian
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At first glance, it could pass for a skilful English natural history painting.
The Guardian
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Auckland Art Gallery have dubbed it "probably the best-known history painting ever produced in New Zealand".
Radio NZ
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As as evangelist of the history painting genre, he was much influenced by Burke's writing, though they were later estranged.
The Irish Times
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He has published solidly on Tudor portraiture, miniatures and 19th-century British history painting, subjects that had little audience at the time.
The Irish Times
1
He returned to Edinburgh, and devoted himself to historical painting.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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It was, for a wonder, precisely like an historical painting.
Men, Women, and Boats
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The principal realistic painters in genre and historical painting are Fedotov, Makovski, Perov, Polenor, Vereschagin, etc.
Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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The whole description of the interview with the King is a good specimen of familiar historical painting.
Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third / From th...
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Vertue thinks that Sir James was indebted to Laguerre for his knowledge of historical painting on ceilings, etc.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
Usage of historical art in English
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Arts correspondent Julia Waite looks at trends in historical art narratives.
Radio NZ
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From Italy he has returned to America with by far the most important contribution to historical Art that has ever reached us.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 / A Magaz...