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History of historical painting from the Baroque to the Neoclassicism.

Added on: Feb 24th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Herotod
Listed in: Art History Arts
Tags: art painting history nationalism historicism neoclassicism

Recent Posts

Marengo

Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 02:45

One of the uncountable battle paintings concerning the Napoleonic Wars by the French painter Louis-François Lejeune (1775-1848). He depicted one of Napoleons big victories.The Battle of Marengo...
Archaic Cruelty

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 11:14 in barbarian, luminais

The French painter Evariste Vital Luminais (1821-1896) who preferred subjects from the barbarian period of French history depicted here a scene from the Merovingian period.The tortured sons of Clovis (1880)When in the absence of their father the two ...
Oriental Rituals

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 13:47 in orientalism, bridgman

The American painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) was specialized in oriental subjects. Sometimes he added further a historical scenery. These two paintings underline the success of this method. The second (I don’t know which one was the f...
Echoes of History

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 10:43 in spain, muñoz degrain

Echoes of Roncesvalles (1890) by the Spanish painter Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840-1924).This painting refers to the battle of Roncesvalles in 778, where Charlemagne's rear guard was annihilated by the Basques. But it’s far more than the typical pse...
Norwegian King

Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 13:40 in arbo, national myth

The crowning of Olav I Tryggvason of Norway (1860) by the Norwegian painter Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892).Arbo was a romantic painter who specialized in historical and mythological subjects. Here he depicted one of the greatest kings in Norwegian hi...
Female War Paintings

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 13:35 in battle, lady butler

Elizabeth Thompson, later Lady Butler (1846-1933) was not only one of the few female painters in Victorian Britain, she was moreover probably the only female war painter. John Ruskin Britain's leading art critic at this time had the opinion "that no ...