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The Death of Socrates
painting by Jacques-Louis David
history painting
genre in painting defined by historical matter (see also religious painting and mythological painting)
The Coronation of Napoleon
painting by Jacques-Louis David, completed in 1807
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581
painting by Ilya Repin
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
series of paintings by Jacques-Louis David in 5 versions
The Last Day of Pompeii
painting by Karl Briullov
The Slav Epic
cycle of paintings by Alphonse Mucha
Phryne before the Areopagus
painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
painting by Paul Delaroche
The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
painting by Rembrandt
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States
painting by Howard Chandler Christy
Dido building Carthage
painting by J. M. W. Turner
God Speed
1900 painting by British artist Edmund Leighton
Peasants' War Panorama Museum
museum in Germany
The Defense of Cadiz Against the English
painting by Francisco de Zurbarán
Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors
painting by Joseph Wright of Derby
Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci
painting by Adolph Menzel
A Huguenot
painting by John Everett Milais
The Congress of Paris
painting by Édouard Louis Dubufe
The Arrest of Diepo Negoro by Lieutenant-General Baron De Kock
painting by Nicolaas Pieneman
Battle of Orsha
painting from the circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Carlo III di Borbone visiting the Pope Benedetto XIV in the coffee-house of the Quirinale, Rome
painting by Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Brazen Serpent
painting by Fyodor Bruni
The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro
painting by Raden Saleh
Zenobia found by Shepherds on the banks of the Araxes
painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer
painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Migration of the Serbs
oil paintings by Paja Jovanović
Romulus
painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Mazeppa and the Wolves
painting by Horace Vernet, Musée Calvet
History Painting with self-portrait
painting by Rembrandt
The Babylonian Marriage Market
painting by Edwin Long
Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna
painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
Bathsheba
painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
The barrier of Clichy
painting by Horace Vernet, Louvre
The Tepidarium
painting by Théodore Chassériau
A Boyar Wedding Feast
painting by Konstantin Makovsky
Muley-Abd-Err-Rahmann, sultan du Maroc sortant de son palais de Mequinez
painting by Eugène Delacroix
Samson and Delilah
painting by Guercino
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
painting by Emanuel Leutze
Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis
painting by Henryk Siemiradzki
Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848
painting by François-Auguste Biard
Leiv Eirikson discovering America
painting by Christian Krohg (Nasjonalmuseet, NG.M.00558)
Death of Sophonisbe
painting by Mattia Preti
The Meeting of Frederick II and Joseph II in Neisse in 1769
painting by Adolph Menzel
Venus of the sea
painting by Théodore Chassériau
Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden
painting by Gustaf Cederström; 1884 replica of 1878 version in Gothenburg
The Danish Constituent Assembly
painting by Constantin Hansen
The women of Amphissa
painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva
painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Taking of the Malakoff Redoubt
painting by Horace Vernet
The Children of Edward
painting by Paul Delaroche
Louis d'Orleans shows his mistress
a painting by Eugene Delacroix
Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca
painting by Emanuel Leutze
Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great
painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Return of Marcus Sextus
painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Miraculous Draught of Fish
painting by Jacob Jordaens
The victory of faith
painting by St George Hare
Virgil reading the ''Aeneid'' to Augustus and Octavia
painting by Angelica Kauffman
Episode of the September Days 1830, on the Grand Place of Brussels
painting by Gustave Wappers
The battle of Jena, October 14, 1806
painting by Horace Vernet