A 'history painting' is one which has a serious narrative, or includes exemplars of actions which are intended to have didactic overtones. In this sense the word history relates to the Itali [..]

The term history painting was introduced in the seventeenth century to describe paintings with subject matter drawn from classical history and mythology, and the Bible – in the eighteenth century it w [..]

Painting concerned with the representation of scenes from the Bible, history (usually classical history), and classical literature. From the Renaissance to the 19th century it was considered the highe [..]

A genre in painting in which a story is depicted, contrary to other paintings such as portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Subjects vary from truly historical to episodes from Greek mythology and fr [..]

Large-scale painting that represents either historical events or scenes from legend or literature. Considered the highest form of art in the nineteenth century, history paintings are grand in concept [..]