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4 unusual facts about history painting


History painting

So for example Harold Wethey's three-volume catalogue of the paintings of Titian (Phaidon, 1969–75) is divided between "Religious Paintings", "Portraits", and "Mythological and Historical Paintings", though both volumes I and III cover what is included in the term "History Paintings".

Blunt, Anthony, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1660, 1940 (refs to 1985 edn), OUP, ISBN 0-19-881050-4

Especially in the early 19th century, much historical painting depicted specific moments from historical literature, with the novels of Sir Walter Scott a particular favourite, in France and other European countries as much as Great Britain.

From 1760 onwards the British Society of Artists, the first body to organize regular exhibitions in London, awarded two generous prizes each year to paintings of subjects from British history.


Félix Taunay, Baron of Taunay

They arrived in Brazil in 1816, where Nicolas-Antoine became a history painting teacher at Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (at the time called Academia Imperial de Belas Artes).


see also

Stephen Farthing

During the 1990s, he reinvented history painting as a viable contemporary narrative taking on subject matters as diverse as the Battle of Trafalgar, swagger portraiture, and the topographical mapping of cities.