Meanings of history painting in inglês

The Triumph of Death is unmistakably a war painting, a history painting.

At first glance, it could pass for a skilful English natural history painting.

Auckland Art Gallery have dubbed it "probably the best-known history painting ever produced in New Zealand".

As as evangelist of the history painting genre, he was much influenced by Burke's writing, though they were later estranged.

He has published solidly on Tudor portraiture, miniatures and 19th-century British history painting, subjects that had little audience at the time.

Here, he was saying, was a contemporary equivalent of a grand ' history painting', once considered the highest and most challenging branch of art.

In conformity to custom, I call this part of the art history painting; it ought to be called poetical, as in reality it is.

They feel like history paintings now, and yet they live in our time too.

Both artists make elaborately staged photographic tableaux that are on the scale of epic history paintings or cinematic projections.

Painters such as Gainsborough did landscapes and dramatic history paintings too, but neither of these sold as well as portraits.

History painting occupied pole position, then came portraiture, genre paintings of everyday life, landscape and, at the bottom of the heap, still life.