Historical European Narratives

Dramatic depictions of historical events and figures illustrate narratives from the Spanish War of Independence and classic themes from European history.

The Continence of Scipio, Pellegrini, Giovanni Antonio (1675-1741)

Descent From The Cross (Detail) 1521 Rosso Fiorentino(1494-1540 Italian) Oil On Board Pinacoteca, Volterra, Italy

French school. King Louis-Philippe and the famille d'Orleans visiting the Joan of Arc statue in the chateau de Versailles gallery. 1839. Oil on canvas (190 x 150 cm). Versailles, musée national du château et des Trianons. Author: AUGUSTE VINCHON (1789-1855). Location: MUSEO PALACIO. Versailles. France. JOAN OF ARC. ORLEANS DONCELLA DE. ORLEANS FAMILIA DE. JUANA DE ARCO.

Pomegranates 1866 Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1892 British) Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England

EL AGRADECIMIENTO DE TOBIAS - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/LIENZO - 178x150 cm - BARROCO ITALIANO - NP 7093. Author: GIOVANNI BILIVERT. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. RAPHAEL (ARCHANGEL). TOBIAS / SAN TOBIAS.

MUSEO - BOCETO CUPULA REGINA MARTIRUM DEL PILAR -DET. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: LA SEO. SARAGOSSA. Saragossa Zaragoza. SPAIN.

The Banquet of Cleopatra; Gerard Hoet (Dutch, 1648 - 1733); late 17th century - early 18th century; Oil on canvas; 57.8 x 69.5 cm (22 3,4 x 27 3,8 in.)

Murillo, Anbetung der Hirten - -

The Massacre of Innocents, by Cavallino Bernardo, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Brera Art Gallery. Whole artwork. Massacre of Innocents crowd group light shadow dead baby corpses torturer nudes steps stairs against the light drapery: draping drama.

Luca Giordano / Esau and Jacob (The change of the birthright), 1695-1696, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 99 cm x 180 cm, P05442. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

José Jiménez Donoso / 'The Miracle of Saint Francis of Paola'. Last quarter of the XVII century. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Napoleon I., Kroenung , David

'Holy Family in Egypt'. France, 1655-1657. Dimensions: 105x145 xm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.

The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia, by Raphael, circa 1516-1517, National Art Gallery of Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna region, Bologna, Italy

Ancona (Italia, Marche), Pinacoteca Civica Podesti. Francesco Podesti, Il Gioramento degli Anconetani, olio su tela, 1844-1847

Juan de Juanes / 'Saint Steven led to his Martyrdom', ca. 1562, Spanish School, Oil on panel, 160 cm x 123 cm, P00840. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Painting titled 'The Four Ages of Man' by Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) a French painter of the tenebrist style. Dated 17th Century

Darius' Family before Alexander, by Crosato Giambattista, 1752 - 1758, 18th Century, fresco. Italy: Veneto: Padua: Levada: Villa Marcello: salone del piano nobile. Whole artwork. Darius Alexander the Great family mother children mother wife curtain prostrate servant soldiers

Susanna And The Elders, 17th century. Sir Peter Lely .

'Oath of the Horatii' (detail), 1784, Oil on canvas. Author: JACQUES LOUIS DAVID. Location: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. NEW YORK.

The Parable of the Wedding Guest, by Strozzi Bernardo, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Liguria, Genoa, Private collection. Detail. Parable man king scepter necklace boots drapery: draping folds architectural background half-column Corinthian capital bracket brown hues: tones yellow light blue: azure black red beige.

PORTRAIT OF AMERICO VESPUCIO - FRESCO. Location: CASA BUONARROTI. Florenz. ITALIA.

'The Descent from the Cross' (detail), c. 1435, Oil on panel, P02825. Author: ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN (1399-1464) ROGIER DE LA PAS. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. CRISTO DEL DESCENDIMIENTO. SANTOS VARONES. JESUS MUERTO-CRISTO MUERTO-JESUCRISTO MUERTO.

Saint Matthew and the Angel Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo Italian Saint Matthew is shown writing his gospel, inspired by the angel who is his traditional iconographic symbol. Behind are two scenes from the saints life: on the right he receives hospitality at the court of the Queen of Ethiopia, while the event on the left is less clear. The various sources of light in the painting suggest that this was one of the works that Savoldo painted around 1534 for the house of the head of the Milanese mint, described by the biographer Vasari as "nocturnes, with fires.". Saint Matthew and the Angel. Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo (Italian, Brescia 1480/85-after 1548). Oil on canvas. Paintings

'Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna'. Italy, Between 1728 and 1730. Dimensions: 387x227 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO.

Martyrdom of St Peter Toma, by Camuccini Vincenzo, 1813, 19th Century, canvas. Italy, Campania, Naples, Capodimonte National Museum and Galleries. Whole artwork. Bystanders: onlookers sovereign: king.

Raphael, Raffaello Santi or Sanzio, called (Urbino, 1483-Rome, 1520). Italian painter. Misa de Bolsena (1512-14). Detail of swiss. Work commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 to decorate their new rooms. Stanze di Raffaello. Vatican.

Italy, Milan, Lampugnani Conspiracy, detail

VERA Y ESTACA, Alejo (1834-1923). The Last Days of Numantia. 1880 - 1881. The inhabitants of Numancia killing themselves before the conquest of the Roman army under Scipio Emilianus. Oil on canvas.

The Plague in an Ancient City, Holland, circa 1650-1652, Painting by Michael Sweerts, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period

Daughter of Herodias by Bernardino Licinio, oil on canvas, circa 1489- circa 1565, Russia, Moscow , State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 87x116

Education of the Children of Clovis (or School of Vengeance, or Training of Clotilde's Sons) - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1861

Concert A Huit Personnages Concert By Eight People Valentin de Boulogne (1594-1632 French) Oil On Canvas Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Croesus receiving a tribute from a Lydian, 1629, by Claude Vignon (1593-1670), oil on canvas, 105x149 cm. Detail.

Solomon is Made King James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York City

POSTRIMERIAS DE FERNANDO III EL SANTO (30 DE MAYO DE 1252) - SIGLO XIX - O/L - 51x94,5. Author: MATTONI VIRGILIO. Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-CONVENTO DE LA MERCED CALZAD. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN. FERNANDO III EL SANTO CASTILLA / LEON. SAN FERNANDO (REY).

Aert de Gelder (1645-1727), the Persian King Ahasverus gives Mordokaj ring, About 1683

Pelagio Palagi (1775-1860). Italian painter. Before leaving for a Religious War, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594-1632) assists the Oath of Allegiance of the Diet of Estates to his daughter Christina. Oil on canvas, 1824. Modern Art Gallery, Milan, Italy.

Alonso Cano / 'The Miracle of the Well', 1638-1640, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 216 cm x 149 cm, P02806. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Giovanni Bellini and Albrecht Dürer are celebrated by Venetian artists, Venice, Italy, painting by Jacopo de Andrea, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a contemporary original .

'The Miracle of Anthony of Padua' (detail), 1798. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: Ermita de san Antonio de la Florida. MADRID. SPAIN.

Painting titled 'The Barque of Dante' by Eugene Delacroix. Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) a French Romantic artist.

Marguerite Leaving Church; 1838; Oil on canvas Ary Scheffer; French; 1795-1858

Model drawing in an old building, draughtsman: Jacobus Johannes Lauwers, 1763 - 1800, paper, brush, pen, h 450 mm × w 525 mm

'The Wedding at Cana', ca. 1562, Oil on canvas, 127 cm x 209 cm, P00494. Author: PABLO VERONES o PAOLO VERONESE (1528-1588). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS.

Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, circa 1785, oil on canvas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297). Italian woman of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Portrait by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804). Oil on canvas. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta, Malta.

Before the procession, 1865, by Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917), oil on canvas, 104x82 cm.

Villa pallavicino. giuseppe verdi museum: doge foscari by francesco hayez. busseto. Italy

The Conversion of the Duke of Gandia - 1884 - oil on canvas - replica. Author: JOSE MORENO CARBONERO (1860-1942). Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. Malaga. SPAIN. XXX. ISABELLA VON PORTUGAL (1503-1539). DUQUE DE GANDIA. FRANZ VON BORGIA. FRANCISCO DE BORJA Y TRASTAMARA. BORJA Y TRASTAMARA FRANCISCO.

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John theBaptist. Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian, Venice, 1519-1594

Fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel, by Giotto, 1304 - 1306, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Padua, Scrovegni Chapel. Detail. Scenes from the Life of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents woman and child on the right man turned back terror.

Burial of Atala; After Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, French, 1767 - 1824; after 1808; Oil on canvas; Unframed: 50.5 x 61.9 cm (19 7/8 x 24 3/8 in.), Framed: 75.6 x 87.6 x 10.2 cm (29 3/4 x 34 1/2 x 4 in.)

Salome with the Hed of St. John the Baptist. By Italian painter Bernardino Luini (1485-1532). Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers. Édouard Manet; French, 1832-1883. Date: 1865. Dimensions: 74 7/8 × 58 3/8 in. (190.8 × 148.3 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Scaldis and Antverpia, Abraham Janssens I, (1609), painting, (1609), Belgian Art

The Education of the Children of Clovis (School of Vengeance; Training of Clotilde's Sons). Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). Oil on canvas. Dated 1861. 129.5 x 178.7cm.

FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum). Workshop of dry cleaner's of the Gobelin tapestries (Manufacture des Gobelins). French painting 18th c. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera, 1631, Spain, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto / 'The Foot Washing', 1548-1549, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 210 cm x 533 cm, P02824. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. JESUS.

The Last Supper by Philippe de Champaigne, painted around 1652, Louvre Museum, Paris, France, Europe

Portrait of three Children and a Man, Thomas de Keyser, 1622

The Death of Virginia. Guillaume-Guillon Lethière (West Indies, Guadeloupe, Sainte-Anne, 1762-1832). France, circa 1800. Paintings. Oil on canvas

Louis VI the Fat (1081-1137), King of France granting the citizens of Paris their first charter, Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921 French), Hotel Dieu, Paris

A Procession of Flagellants', 1812-1819 (1939). Artist: Francisco Goya.

Liberale da Verona (1441-1526). Italian painter. Renaissance. Lamentation of Christ. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany.

Scene from The Tempest; about 1850; Oil on canvas William Rimmer; American; 1816 - 79

Painting depicting the negations for the marriage of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and Francis, Duke of Anjou (1555-1584). Dated 16th Century

Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench / 'In his final moments, King Jaime el Conquistador gives his sword to his son, Pedro', 1881, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 299 cm x 419 cm, P06783. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Ancona (Italia, Marche), Pinacoteca Civica Podesti. Francesco Podesti, Il Gioramento degli Anconetani, olio su tela, 1844-1847

José Moreno Carbonero / 'The Conversion of the Duke of Gandia', 1884, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 315 cm x 500 cm, P06565. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Wedding by Klavdi Vasilyevich Lebedev, Oil on canvas, 1883, 1852-1916, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 48, 8x69, 2

The Ecstasy of St Cecilia, 1514 circa, by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), oil on canvas, 239x149 cm.

The Procuress. Dating: after 1623. Measurements: support: h 99.5 cm × w 95.3 cm; d 9 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Dirck van Baburen (copy after).

Jael and Sisera - Artemisia Gentileschi, circa 1620

The Men of the Holy Office'. Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) French painter and illustrator. Oil on Canvas. Established by Pope Paul III in 1542 the Supreme Sacred Congation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition to defend the Roman Catholic faith, and played an important part in the Counter Reformation.

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852-1916). Polish painter. At the Well, 1888. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland.

Miguel Cabrera / 'De Indio y Barzina: Zambayga', 1763. Museum: MUSEO DE AMERICA, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Holy Virgin in Old Age (La sainte Vierge gée) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Holy Virgin in Old Age (La sainte Vierge gée), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 3/4 x 5 5/16 in. (22.2 x 13.5 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans / 'The Burial of Saint Sebastian (Saint Sebastian in the Cloaca Maxima)', 1877, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 305 cm x 430 cm, P07032. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Jan Weenix (1640-1719). Dutch painter. Fantasy character in a boat, 1666. Louvre Museum. Paris. France. Author: Jean-Antoine Gross.

Francisco de Zurbarán / 'Saint Peter Nolasco's Vision', 1629, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 179 cm x 223 cm, P01236. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

A study of the fifteen; LAMPS, Franciszek Ksawery (1782-1852); after. 19th century (1840-00-00-1860-00-00);The Krasińskie Ordination Library (Warsaw - 1844-1944) - collection

Charles IX of France (1550-1574). King of France from 1560 to 1574. Death of Charles IX. Chromolithography. Historia Universal by Cesar Cantu. Volume VIII. Published in Barcelona, 1886.

France, Lyon, Nightmare

Judith with the Head of Holofernes - 1620 - 139x116 - oil on canvas - Italian Mannerism. Author: CRISTOFANO ALLORI. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Joseph-Nicolas Jouy (born in 1809). "Sketch for the church of Joinville-le-Pont. Saint Charles Borromée". Oil on canvas. 1873-1873. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Figurative art, religious art, sketch, holy history, Christian iconography, religious iconography, saint

ASUNTO EN LA VIDA DE SAN JERONIMO. Author: JUAN ESPINAL (1714-1783). Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Majas on a Balcony, Francisco Goya, circa 1800-1810, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Joan of Arc (1412-1431). The Maind of Orleans, heroine of France durig Hundred Years'War. Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII, 1854. By Jean-Auguste-Dominique Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder (16th century). Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1531. Detail. National Gallery. Oslo. Norway.

'Group Portrait of Three Members of the Paris Council (fragment of the lost painting)'. Flanders, 1616. Dimensions: 60x73 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Pourbus, Frans, the younger.

Michelangelo presenting models for the facade of San Lorenzo, the Laurentian Library and the Medici tombs to Pope Leo X and Cardinal Giulio de Medici, 1617-1619, by Jacopo da Empoli (1554-1640), canvas, 236x141 cm.

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Juan Correa de Vivar / 'The Death of Saint Bernard', ca. 1545, Spanish School, Panel, 138 cm x 97 cm, P05988. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Reconciliation. Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922). Oil on canvas. 50.8 x 96.5cm.

GOYA , FRANCISCO DE. PINTOR ESPAÑOL. FUENTETODOS 1746-1828. SAN BERNARDO CURANDO A UN TULLIDO, AÑO 1787. MONASTERIO DE SAN JOAQUIN Y SANTA ANA. VALLADOLID.

'The Last Supper (copy)'. Italy, 16th century. Dimensions: 77x132 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Anonymous Artist. 16th century. Leonardo da Vinci (after).

'Captive Andromache', c1886. Artist: Frederic Leighton.

EUCLIDES (s. III a. C.) Matemático griego. Fundador de la Escuela de Alejandría. Su obra "Elementos", reune todos los conocimientos adquiridos en geometría plana de su época, además de sus propios descubrimientos.

Attributed to Giorgione, Giovanni Borgherini and His Tutor, Italian, 1477-1478 - 1510, oil on canvas

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