Genre in painting defined by historical matter (see also religious painting and mythological painting)
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Examples for "history painting "
Examples for "history painting "
1 The Triumph of Death is unmistakably a war painting, a history painting .
2 At first glance, it could pass for a skilful English natural history painting .
3 Auckland Art Gallery have dubbed it "probably the best-known history painting ever produced in New Zealand".
4 As as evangelist of the history painting genre, he was much influenced by Burke's writing, though they were later estranged.
5 He has published solidly on Tudor portraiture, miniatures and 19th-century British history painting , subjects that had little audience at the time.
1 He returned to Edinburgh, and devoted himself to historical painting .
2 It was, for a wonder, precisely like an historical painting .
3 The principal realistic painters in genre and historical painting are Fedotov, Makovski, Perov, Polenor, Vereschagin, etc.
4 The whole description of the interview with the King is a good specimen of familiar historical painting .
5 Vertue thinks that Sir James was indebted to Laguerre for his knowledge of historical painting on ceilings, etc.
1 Arts correspondent Julia Waite looks at trends in historical art narratives.
2 From Italy he has returned to America with by far the most important contribution to historical Art that has ever reached us.
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