Classical Historical Paintings

Dramatic paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, featuring mythological themes and significant historical events.

Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus; about 1716-20 Sebastiano Ricci; Italian; 1659-1734

Raphael's Rooms(1508-1524) in The Vatican Museum, Raphael(!483-1520). Vatican city, Rome,Italy.

The Parnassus, 1630-1631, by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1655).

The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila, 1514. Fresco in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and his assistant Giulio Romano. The Meeting of Leo I and Attila is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and his assistant Giulio Romano. It was painted in 1514 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It is located in the Stanza di Eliodoro, which is named after The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple. The painting depicts the meeting between the Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun, and includes the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the sky bearing swords. Initially, Raphael depicted Leo I with the face of Pope Julius II but after Julius' death, Raphael changed the painting to resemble the new pope, Leo X.

The Idolatry of King Solomon. Dating: 1630 - 1648. Measurements: h 63 cm × w 49 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: WILLEM DE POORTER.

Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima. Ludovico Carracci (Italian, 1555 - 1619)

The raising of Lazarus, 1517-1519, by Sebastiano del Piombo (ca 1485-1547), oil on canvas transferred onto panel, 381x289.6 cm.

Juan García de Miranda Attributed to / 'The Wedding at Cana'. XVIII century. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Panel depicting the mill, by Mirabello Cavalori (1535-1572). Studiolo (small study) of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Italy, 16th century.

Italy - Tuscany Region - San Gimignano - Collegiate Church - St. Fina Chapel - Fresco by Ghirlandaio, Obsequies of St Fina

Moses turning Aaron's rod into a snake, Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665)

Andromache imploring Ulysses to spare the life of her son. oil paintings

Flagellation, 1515-1520. Painting attributed to one of the collaborators of the circle of Bernardo Zenale (ca. 1460-1526), Italian painter. Oil on wooden panel (80 x 60 cm). Detail. Pinacoteca Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy.

Italian school. Vespasian's triumphant entrance into Rome. Entrada triunfal de Vespasiano en Roma. Oil on canvas (155 x 363 cm). Madrid, El Prado. Author: VIVIANO CODAZZI (1603-1670) DOMENICO GARGIULO (1609-1675). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. TITUS.

Tarquin the Elder Consulting Attus Navius. Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659 - 1734)

Roman civilization. Admetus and Alcestis, fresco from the Basilica of Ercolano

Death of Archimedes (1815) by Thomas Degeorge

Philoctetes aiming the bow of Hercules at Odysseus by Carstens, Asmus Jacob (1754-1798) Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1790 Pen, brush, watercolour, Indian ink on paper 49,5x58,5 Germany Classicism Mythology, Allegory and Literature Painting

Adulteress. Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902), painter

Macbeth And The Three Witches 1855 Chasseriau, Theodore(1819-1856 French) Oil On Canvas Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phidias showing the Parthenon Frieze to his Friends, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema(8 January 1836 25 June 1912) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain

Alexander's mother begging Alexander the Great, Detail from The Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne, 1517, fresco by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma (1477-1549), Agostino Chigi's wedding chamber, Villa Farnesina, Rome. Italy, 16th century.

Detail of the fresco in the staircase, 1751-1753, Allegory of the Continents, America

Italy, Venice, Feast in house of Levi, guests

Aesop Telling a Fable. Jan Adam Janszoon Kruseman (1804-1862). Oil on canvas. 124.5 x 173.4cm

Ruins with Saint Paul Preaching, Panini, Giovanni Paolo, 1735.

Charles V crowned by Pope Clement VII 1560, Vasari, Giorgio, 1560.

The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople by Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863) / Louvre, Paris / 1840 / France / Oil on canvas / History / 411x497 / Romanticism

'The Martyrdom of Saint James', ca. 1640, Spanish Baroque, Oil on canvas, 252 cm x 186 cm, P07421. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN (1598-1664). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. HERODES AGRIPA I. Apóstol Santiago el Mayor.

Greek Wedding, Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c. 1720 - c. 1737

Baptism of Clovis at Reims, 25 December 496 by Dejuinne, Francois-Louis (1786-1844) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles /France / Oil on canvas / History / 147,8x191 / History painting

Plateau, Tin-enameled earthenware (maiolica or faience). Created for the vernacular bibles published in Lyon, ca. 1560-80.

Anonymous Venetian artist active ca. 1570 (Active ca. 1570). The Last Supper (ca. 1570). Oil on canvas. 121 x 190 cm. Museum: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Josep Obiols / "Tabla de cambio" (Table of change), 20th century, Painting.

Ancient Roman Mosaic Baths Capitoline Museum Details, Rome, Italy

Abraham Schopfer (16th century). German painter. Mucius Scaevola before King Porsena, 1533. Detail. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden.

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style The Coronation of Napoleon

Doubting Thomas, Caravaggio, Michelangelo M.

The Forge of Vulcan by Diego Velazquez, 1599-1660 Spanish, 1630

Alexander the Great Before the Tomb of Achilles by Robert, Hubert (1733-1808) / Louvre, Paris / 1755-1756 / France / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 73x91,5 / Rococo

'Volumnia Reproaching Brutus and Sicinius (Coriolanus)', c1870. Artist: J Stephenson.

David Sees the Messenger Arrive James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York, USA

The Snakeholder. Diana Scultori (Italy, Mantua, before 1530-after 1588)Giulio Romano (Italy, Rome, circa 1499-1546). Italy, 16th century. Prints; engravings. Engraving

Painting titled 'Madonna of the Harpies' by Andrea del Sarto. Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) an Italian painter from Florence.

The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus by Terbrugghen, Hendrick Jansz (1588-1629) / Centraal Museum, Utrecht / 1625 / Holland / Oil on canvas / Bible / 167,7x208

The last days of Pompeii, August 24, 79, Brjullov Karl (1799-1852), oil on canvas. Flavian dynasty, Italy, 1st century.

Doge Niccolo da Ponte receiving an olive branch from Venice, by Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto (1518-1594). Detail. Sala del Maggior Consiglio (Hall of the Great Council), Palazzo Ducale, Venice.

Vicente Carducho / 'Martirio de los padres John Rochester y James Walworth', 1626-1632, Spanish School, Canvas, 337,5 cm x 298 cm, P05241. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Dido with Aeneas recounting the misfortunes of Troy, 1815

Christ and the Adulteress - Lucas Cranach the Younger, circa 1532

fine arts, religious art, persons, Jesus Christ, way of crucifixion, Veil of Veronica, painting by James Tissot (1836 - 1902),

Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184). Latin playwright. Engraving of his Comedies. Paris, 1759. Colored.

Italy, Tuscany, Florence, Dome square, Baptistry of St.John, Scene on the Gates of Paradise, The story of Joseph, Lorenzo Ghiberti artist, East Bronze Doors.

Belshazzar's Feast SD 1635 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn(1606-1669 Dutch) Oil On Canvas National Gallery, London, England

Jose Maria Jara (1866-1939). Mexican painter. The Wake. 1889. National Art Museum. Mexico City.

Ezekiel (622-570 BC). Hebrew prophet. Portrait. Fresco by Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel ceiling. 1508-1512. Apostolic Palace. Vatican City.

Century old murals adorning the ceiling in St. Aloysis college chapel, Mangalore, Karnataka, India, Asia

Pau Costa / Retablo de la Anunciación, 1715-1725. Capilla de la Anunciación, Catedral de Girona (Catedral de Santa María de Gerona).

Painting by Caravaggio- beheading of John the Baptist, Italy.

A Measure. Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1904. 216 x 138.2cm. The Painting depicts Beatrice in a scene from Much Ado About Nothing, Act II Scene I.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Pericles and his daughter Marina. Colored engraving.

Hemicycle de l'Ecole des Beaux Arts 1841 Paul Delaroche (1797-1856/French) Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris

LA FLAGELACION - SIGLO XVI. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS.

Fresco painting on the ceiling of the Library in Amorbach Benedictine abbey in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Diogenes in search of man, by Pieter van Mol (1599-1650).

19th cent. painting. Tristan and Isolde. Neuschwanstein.

Moses and Pharaoh's Daughters. Federico Castellon (1914-1971). Oil on canvas. 56 x 61.3cm.

The Washing of Peter's Feet, painting by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century painting, exact original date unknown

PINTURA MURAL DEL SALON DE CONFERENCIAS - DETALLE DE LA CIUDAD DE CORDOBA - 1859/61. Author: ISIDORO LOZANO (1826-1895). Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Italy: 'The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem', oil on canvas by Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), 1867. Displayed in the Accademia of Venice, Venice

Aeneas and Dido in Carthage, by Claude Lorrain (1604-1682).

Miquel Cabanyes / 'La adoración del becerro de oro', 1802, Óleo sobre lienzo, 106 x 146 cm. Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.

Luca Giordano Wedding in Cana, Palazzo Chiericati, Pinacoteca of Vicenza, a major work by Andrea Palladios, with Venetian painting art from the Middle Ages to Mannerism, Veneto, Italy, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe

A Sibyl and a Prophet. Date/Period: Ca. 1495. Painting. Distemper and gold on canvas. Height: 56.2 cm (22.1 in); Width: 48.6 cm (19.1 in). Author: ANDREA MANTEGNA.

The contest between the Muses and the Pierides, by Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto (1519-1594), oil on panel, 46x91 cm.

LORENZO, San (m.258). Martir español, archidiácono de Sixto II en Roma. "MARTIRIO DE SAN LORENZO" (siglo XVI), obra de Bartolomé FERNANDEZ. Museo Diocesano. Catedral de LEON. Castilla-León. España.

GUTENBERG, Johannes Gensfleisch, called (h.1397-Mainz Mainz, 1468). German printer, considered the inventor of printing with mobile typographical characters.

The Last Honors to Counts Egmont and Hoorne, reduction (Les derniers honneurs rendus aux Comtes d'Egmont et d'Hornes, réduction) Louis Gallait (Belgian, 1810-1887). The Last Honors to Counts Egmont and Hoorne, reduction (Les derniers honneurs rendus aux Comtes d'Egmont et d'Hornes, réduction), 1859. Oil on panel, 13 3/4 x 20 in. (34.9 x 50.8 cm). As Belgium reveled in its newfound independence, won in 1830, painters such as Louis Gallait recalled historical events that characterized the long struggle for selfrule, including the martyrdom of Counts Egmont and Hoorne. These sixteenth-century Flemish noblemen dutifully served their king, Philip II of Spain, as soldiers and diplomats. Though devout Catholics, Egmont and Hoorne urged Philip to recognize the religious freedoms of Protestants, a position that branded the two as rebels and led to their arrest and beheading. Their murders galvanized resistance to Spanish rule in the Low Countries (present-day Belgium and the Netherlands). In t

David with the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio, Michelangelo (1571-1610)

Lorenzo and Isabella, 1849, by John Everett Millais (1829-1896), oil on canvas, 103x143 cm.

Europa, a figure from Greek mythology and Africa, fresco from Pompeii, wall painting, fresco from historic Pompeii, digitally restored

'The School of Athens. Detail of Plato', 1510, Fresco, Before restauration. Author: RAFAEL SANZIO O RAFAEL DE URBINO (1483-1520). Location: MUSEOS VATICANOS-ESTANCIA DEL SELLO. VATICANO. PLATO. LEONARDO DA VINCI.

Richard Westall, 1765-1836, British, Alcibiades and Timon, ca. 1805. Watercolor with gouache and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

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