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parfait ouvrage de Dieu sur la Terre, il est certain aussi que celui qui se rend l'imitateur de Dieu en peignant des figures humaines, est beaucoup plus excellent que tous les autres ... un Peintre qui ne fait que des portraits, n'a pas encore cette haute perfection de l'Art, & ne peut prétendre à l'honneur que reçoivent les plus sçavans. Il faut pour cela passer d'une seule figure à la représentation de plusieurs ensemble; il faut traiter l'histoire & la fable; il faut représenter de grandes actions comme les historiens, ou des sujets agréables comme les Poëtes; & montant encore plus haut, il faut par des compositions allégoriques, sçavoir couvrir sous le voile de la fable les vertus des grands hommes, & les mystères les plus relevez.
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imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled. For that he must pass from representing a single figure to several together; history and myth must be depicted; great events must be represented as by historians, or like the poets, subjects that will please, and climbing still higher, he must have the skill to cover under the veil of myth the virtues of great men in allegories, and the mysteries they reveal".
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As in "The beautifully renovated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the public in 2013. To celebrate this event the Rijksmuseum will host a three-day symposium on Historical Painting Techniques. The central theme of the symposium will be the technical study of historically used painting
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mostly occurred after they were over. Another path was to choose contemporary subjects that were oppositional to government either at home and abroad, and many of what were arguably the last great generation of history paintings were protests at contemporary episodes of repression or outrages at
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In modern English, "historical painting" is sometimes used to describe the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense, especially for 19th-century art, excluding religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects, which are included in the broader term "history painting", and before the
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had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer. He placed emphasis on the ability to depict the
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a particular favourite, in France and other European countries as much as Great Britain. By the middle of the century medieval scenes were expected to be very carefully researched, using the work of historians of costume, architecture and all elements of decor that were becoming available. And
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Celui qui fait parfaitement des païsages est au-dessus d'un autre qui ne fait que des fruits, des fleurs ou des coquilles. Celui qui peint des animaux vivants est plus estimable que ceux qui ne représentent que des choses mortes & sans mouvement; & comme la figure de l'homme est le plus
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He who produces perfect landscapes is above another who only produces fruit, flowers or seashells. He who paints living animals is more than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an
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By the late 18th century, with both religious and mytholological painting in decline, there was an increased demand for paintings of scenes from history, including contemporary history. This was in part driven by the changing audience for ambitious paintings, which now increasingly made their
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the painting of actual history tended to degenerate into panoramic battle-scenes with the victorious monarch or general perched on a horse accompanied with his retinue, or formal scenes of ceremonies, although some artists managed to make a masterpiece from such unpromising material, as
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refused to purchase the work, West succeeded both in overcoming his critics' objections and inaugurating a more historically accurate style in such paintings. Other artists depicted scenes, regardless of when they occurred, in classical dress and for a long time, especially during the
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and others was supported by the French state, but after the fall of Napoleon in 1815 the French governments were not regarded as suitable for heroic treatment and many artists retreated further into the past to find subjects, though in Britain depicting the victories of the
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Church commissions for large group scenes from the Bible had greatly reduced, and historical painting became very significant. Especially in the early 19th century, much historical painting depicted specific moments from historical literature, with the novels of Sir
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in the various national academies in the 18th century, and for most of the 19th, and increasingly historical subjects dominated. During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods the heroic treatment of contemporary history in a frankly propagandistic fashion by
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reputation in public exhibitions rather than by impressing the owners of and visitors to palaces and public buildings. Classical history remained popular, but scenes from national histories were often the best-received. From 1760 onwards, the
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History paintings almost always contain a number of figures, often a large number, and normally show some typical states on that is a moment in a narrative. The genre includes depictions of moments in religious narratives, above all the
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was to a considerable extent built upon the rejection of History Painting... All other genres are deemed capable of entering, in one form or another, the 'pantheon' of modernity considered, but History Painting is excluded".
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made good quality reproductions both relatively cheap and very widely accessible, and also hugely profitable for artist and publisher, as the sales were so large. Historical painting often had a close relationship with
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calls this type of work the "Intimate Romantic", and in French it was known as the "peinture de genre historique" or "peinture anecdotique" ("historical genre painting" or "anecdotal painting").
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See Reynolds below; nonetheless he bowed to convention: "In conformity to custom, I call this part of the art history painting; it ought to be called poetical, as in reality it is." (
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style") was a somewhat derisive French term for earlier paintings of medieval and Renaissance scenes, which were often small and depicting moments of anecdote rather than drama;
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in mosaic). Artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.
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produced between the Renaissance and the late 19th century, after which the term is generally not used even for the many works that still meet the basic definition.
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in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people. He ignored these comments and showed the scene in modern dress. Although
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uses both indiscriminately to cover "history painting", while saying "...it ought to be called poetical, as in reality it is", reflecting the French term
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by historical painting? Now-a-days it means the endeavour, by the power of imagination, to portray some historical event of past days." So for example
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painting was an alternative genre that offered similar exotic costumes and decor, and at least as much opportunity to depict sex and violence.
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example of this is the extensive research of Byzantine architecture, clothing and decoration made in Parisian museums and libraries by
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The term is generally not used in art history in speaking of medieval painting, although the Western tradition was developing in large
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This view remained general until the 19th century, when artistic movements began to struggle against the establishment institutions of
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History paintings were traditionally regarded as the highest form of Western painting, occupying the most prestigious place in the
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in French, meaning "story" or "narrative", and essentially means "story painting". Most history paintings are not of scenes from
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are therefore history paintings, as are most very large paintings before the 19th century. The term covers large paintings in
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techniques, the historical painting materials, their origin and trade, and their application in the painter’s workshop."
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An influential formulation of the hierarchy of genres, confirming the history painting at the top, was made in 1667 by
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of monoscenic depictions of crucial moments in an implied narrative with unidentified characters, such as
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Initially, "history painting" and "historical painting" were used interchangeably in English, as when Sir
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The large production, using the finest French artists, of propaganda paintings glorifying the exploits of
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and scenes of formal surrenders and the like. Scenes from ancient history had been popular in the
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continued to regard history painting as the ideal for their most ambitious works. Others such as
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There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as "poetic painting" (
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became associated with, and often expected in, history painting. In the Late Renaissance and
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from The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Green and Seddon, 7-8; Harrison, 105-106
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The unheroic nature of modern dress was regarded as a serious difficulty. When, in 1770,
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were long considered, with those of Michelangelo, as the finest models for the genre.
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such as Géricault and Delacroix, and those from other movements such as the English
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And when did you last see your father? The Victorian Painter and British History
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Lectures on Architecture and Painting: Delivered at Edinburgh, in November, 1853
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History Painting Reassessed: The Representation of History in Contemporary Art
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scenes. These groups were for long the most frequently painted; works such as
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By the later 19th century, history painting was often explicitly rejected by
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The Mirror of the Gods, How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
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in France became specialized painters of large historical subjects. The
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Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World
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Strong, 17, and 32–34 and generally on growth of historical painting.
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Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue
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Scott's Historical Novels and French Historical Painting 1815-1855
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19th century were the most common subjects for history paintings.
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interactions between the figures by gesture and expression.
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Narrating Modernity: The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914
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In the mid-nineteenth century there arose a style known as
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or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a
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Artistes pompiers: French academic art in the 19th century
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allegory was the highest form of all history painting.
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Rijksmuseum, "Painting Techniques - Call for Papers"
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As shown in the usages in Barlow, Strong, and Wright
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Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses
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The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch
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Index


Diana and Actaeon
Titian
landscape painting
still-life

Judas
Rembrandt
painting
artistic style
narrative story
Greek
Roman mythology
Bible stories
portrait
still life
landscape painting
Latin
history
Life of Christ
mythology
allegorical
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel ceiling
oil on canvas
fresco

Jacques-Louis David
Oath of the Horatii
hierarchy of genres

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