Historical Figures and Events

Dramatic scenes featuring historical figures on horseback, knights in armor, and crowds celebrating significant events, showcasing vibrant colors and intense emotions.

Entrance of Henry IV in Paris 22 March 1594 by Gerard, Francois Pascal Simon (1770-1837) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles / 1817 / France / Oil on canvas / History / 510x958 / Neoclassicism

ESCENA DE TILL EULENSPIEGEL(ASTUTO PICARO CAMPESINO). Author: CORNELI DUSARTO (1660-1704). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Allegory of Fortune, Balthazar Nebot, active 1730-1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729), ca. 1730, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm), allegory, anger, blindness, bridge, chains, coins, crowd, demons, fighting, gathering, greed, leisure, men, misfortune, monarchs, nude, orb, palettes, poor, reaching, red, religious and mythological subject, sacks, sash, stocks (torture device), throwing, wealth, woman, yoke

Bernardo Ferrándiz y Badenes / 'Hor-ses, hor-ses'. 1877. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Market Square during the plague of 1656, Naples, by Carlo Coppola (active 1640-1660), oil on canvas, 130x180 cm. Detail. Italy, 17th century.

L'eveil de la cite' (The City Rises) 1910.. Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Italian artist. Museum of Modern Art, New York

fine arts, Brueghel, Jan the Elder, (1568 - 1625), painting, ""Large Fish Market"", 1603, oil on panel, 58,5 cm x 91,5 cm, Old Pinakothek, Munich,

Predella of the Miracle of the Profaned Host, by Paolo Uccello (1397-1475). Detail.

Chulos playing the bull - Men luring bull away from matador, Spain 1870

Painting titled 'The Death of Nelson' by Daniel Maclise. Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) an Irish historian painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator

Circassian on horseback. Brodowski, Tadeusz (1821-1848), painter

Edward V rides into London with Duke Richard, 1483, (c1920). Artist: C I De Lacy

Olshansky, Boris Mikhaylovich (*1956) Private Collection 1996 Oil on canvas Modern Russia History

Ascribed to Juan de la Corte (ca.1585-1662). Baroque painter. Royal Festivities in the Plaza Mayor, 1623. Detail. History Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Samson's Revenge, c1730-1740. Oil on copper by Johann Georg Platzer (1704-1761) who was a prolific Austrian Rococo painter and draughtsman

The Stilts', c1785. Artist: Francisco Goya. Francisco Goya(1746-1828) was a Spanish artist whose paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th and 20th century painters.

Juana de Arco, quemada en la hoguera, Lenepveu, 1886-1890. Panteón , le Panthéon, monumento de estilo neoclásico, V distrito ,París, France,Western Europe.

Publius Cornelius Scipio the African (236-183 a.C.) Roman General and Consul. Generous feature of Scipio. Engraving, 19th century. Colored.

Giuseppe De Nittis 1846-1884 The races at Longchamp. Complete study 1883, 80x117 cm oil on panel.

The Final Day of Sagunto in 219BC - 1869 - oil on canvas. Author: FRANCISCO DOMINGO MARQUES (1842-1920). Location: PALACIO DE LA GENERALITAT. Valencia. SPAIN. ANIBAL. ANIBAL BARCA.

'Prince Rupert at Edgehill', 23 October 1642, (c1880). Artist: Unknown.

NEUVILLE, Alphonse de (1835-1885). Vivac at Le Bourget after the fight. 21st December 1870. 1872. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles.

Auto-de-fe. Chromolithography. Historia General de España, by Miguel Morayta. Volume III. Madrid, 1890.

Illustration for William Shakespeare's play Richard II, Act V, Scene II. From an 18th century engraving by Robert Thew after a work by James Northcote.

The Taking of Tripoli, April 1102 1842 Charles Alexandre Debacq (1804-1853 French) Oil on Canvas Chateau de Versailles, France

An Officer on Horseback. Date/Period: 1760s. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil. Height: 772 mm (30.39 in); Width: 641 mm (25.23 in). Author: Joshua Reynolds.

Saint George and the Dragon by Moreau, Gustave (1826-1898)/ National Gallery, London/ 1889-1890/ France/ Oil on canvas/ Symbolism/ 141x96,5/ Bible

The Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie visiting the Chaillot Hil, 1867, by Louis Moullin (1817-1876). Second Empire, France, 19th century.

Wyjście żaków z Krakowa w roku 1549. Łopieński, Ignacy (1865-1941), graphic artist, Matejko, Jan (1838-1893), painter

Taken from the city hotel, February 24, 1848 Spoiler. "Taken City Hall, February 24, 1848". Print.

Francis I of Angoulme(1494-1547). King of France (1515-1547). Arrival of Franois I to the Port of Valencia. 1876. Oil on canvas.

The Massacre of the Lamented Missionary, The Rev. J. Williams and Mr Harris. George Baxter; English, 1804-1867. Date: 1841. Dimensions: 225 × 328 mm (image/primary support). Steel engraving colored with wooden blocks on tan wove paper, laid down on cream board. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

El asesinato del obispo de Lieja ,Eugène Delacroix, 1829, Museo del Louvre,museo nacional de Francia, Paris, France,Western Europe.

Rip Van Winkle 1833 Albertis del Orient Browere Washington Irvings popular story “Rip Van Winkle” (1819-20) inspired several artists to select dramatic moments from it for the subjects of paintings. Browere chose the conflict between the dazed and unkempt Van Winkle, who has just awoken from a long, deep sleep, and a large group of curious onlookers. A town official confronts Van Winkle with questions about his appearance and his politics, and it is eventually discovered that the old man slumbered through the entire period of the American Revolution and the change in the countrys government.. Rip Van Winkle 17465

Ponce de Leon in Florida, 1513 (Detail) 1878 Thomas Moran (1837-1926 American) Oil on cavas The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville

The Scourging on the Front (La flagellation de face) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Scourging on the Front (La flagellation de face), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 14 1/4 x 9 11/16 in. (36.2 x 24.6 cm). According to John, while the Roman governor continues to find Jesus blameless, he accedes to pressure from the priests and decides to chastise” him through scourging. Jesus is bound, defenseless, to a marble column and whipped before a crowded court as Pilate looks on from the palace loggia in the background. Christ’s tormentors perform a punishment most likely inflicted, Tissot tells his readers, with leather whips weighted with pieces of bone. European Art 1886-1894

Painting titled 'Input Roger de Flor in Constantinople' by José Moreno Carbonero (1860-1942) Spanish painter. Dated 19th Century

La città che sale - The City Rises, 1910-11. Oil on canvas, 200 x 290.5cm. Museum: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK USA. Author: UMBERTO BOCCIONI.

LA CAZA - DETALLE - CAZADOR. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746-1828). Location: PALACIO REAL-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

The German Princes. Date/Period: Ca. 1513-1516. Brush and brown ink, watercolor, and body color heightened with gold, on vellum. Author: Albrecht Altdorfer.

EL ARRASTRADERO (PLAZA DE TOROS DE MADRID) SIGLO XIX. Author: HENRI PIERRE LEON PHARAMOND BLANCHARD (1805-1873). Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN.

Allegory of the Flowering of the Dutch Fishing-industry after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, attributed to Willem Eversdijck, 1667 - 1671

This inage shows The return of ulysses by the German-French painter L F Schutzenberger (died 1903). According to the Greek legend as told by Homer in the "Odyssey," when the hero Odysseus returned home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, a journey that had taken him 20 years, he found his palace overrun with suitors vying for the hand of his wife. At the gates to the city was his faithful dog Argus, who had pined for his master those long years and, upon seeing him again, died.

Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888). "The burnt down town hall, attacked by the troops of Versailles". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 27034-9 Arrondissement IVEME IV 4th 4, attack, commune, town hall Paris, fire, death, assault, troop Versailles, destruction, oil on canvas, scene

National Museum of Ancient Art. Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. Gregorio Lopes. 16th century. Oil on oak panel.

Historia. Carreras de cuádrigas en el circo romano. Grabado de 1871.

Pierre Jacques Volaire (1729-1802). Night on the Neopolitan sea. Detail: dancing around the fire to the sound of traditional musical instruments.

TENIERS II, David, 'the Younger' (1610-1690). Bird-shooting at Brussels. 1652. Detail in the left side. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History).

The Charging Chasseur, 1812 by French painter Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Oil on canvas. Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Romanticism.

Allegory on the flourishing of the Dutch Fishery after the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67), Willem Eversdijck (attributed to), 1667 - 1671 painting Allegory of the flowering of Dutch fishing after the second English sea war (1665-67). Group portrait of Dutch Admirals standing on the banks of the sea. A few bring in a net with fish. On the right a few hunters with dogs at a Grotto-like fountain with a statue of Neptune and seahorses. Presented are: David Vlofh (), Aert van Nes (), Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Isaac Sweers, Adriaen Banckert, Engel de Ruyter, Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter, Pieter Florisz (), Cornelis Tromp (), Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge, Jan Cornelisz Meppel, Aucke Stellingwerff, Egbert M. Cortenaer (), Johan Evertsen de Oude, Pieter de Bitter and Jacob Binckes (). canvas. oil paint (paint) sea and coastal fishery. historical persons. group-portrait of hunters. commander-in-chief, admiral Netherlands

A Caricature of Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873), Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882, British, ca. 1840, Oil on panel, caricature, devil, hell, humor, landscape, man, portrait, satire, science, volcano

Driving Department in historical costumes (proof of illustration) Ivanec ', Ivan (1893 1946)

The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr' c1507. Oil and tempera on wood. Giovanni Bellini (1426-1516) Italian Renaissance painter. Dominican friar and inquisitor, in 1252 ambushed and murdered by persecuted Cathar heretics.

The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr c1507. Oil and tempera on wood. Giovanni Bellini (1426-1516) Italian Renaissance painter. Dominican friar and inquisitor, in 1252 ambushed and murdered by persecuted Cathar heretics.

Strolling Players. Eugène Delacroix (France, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798-1863). France, 1833. Drawings. Watercolor

Thackeray's The Rose and The Ring

Isabella II (1830-1904). Spanish Queen. Queen Isabella II and her husband visiting the Maundy Thursday Monument at the Church of Santa Maria, 1855 (Madrid, Spain). Painting by Ramon Soldevila y Trepat (1828-1873). History Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Modern reconstruction of Battle of Issus, between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, Darius III. Painting. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Nicholas Nicolaievich by Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev-Orenburgsky, Oil on canvas, 1885, 1837-1898, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 144x104

GOSSE, Nicolas (1787-1878). Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia. 6th July 1807. 1837. Detail. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles.

'Villagers Celebration', c1530, 1949. Artist: Nikolaus Meldemann.

Iberian Peninsula. Ancient History. From left to right; figures 1 to 6: Phoenicians, figures 7 to 11: Celtiberians. Chromolithography. Historia General de España, by Modesto Lafuente. Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1877.

Illustration by Gustave Dore 1832-1883 French artist and illustrator for Paradise Lost by John Milton Book VI line 188

Le Serment du Jeu de paume Jacques-Louis David, 1791. The Tennis Court Oath of June 1789. This marked the founding event of the French Revolution. On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established. On the unfinished canvas,

GALVEZ, Juan (1774-1848). Agustina of Aragon. 1848. 1848. Spainsh heroine who defended the Portillo in Saragosse. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Làzaro Galdiano Foundation.

The Death of Nelson by West, Benjamin (1738-1820) Walker Art Gallery 1806 Great Britain Oil on canvas Painting Genre,History

Boys Training For The Bullfight - After Goya Tapestry/Textiles(- Flemish) Tapestry

Allegory on the flourishing of the Dutch Fishery after the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67). Dating: 1667 - 1671. Measurements: h 114 cm × w 162 cm; d 5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Willem Eversdijck (attributed to).

'Great Fire Of London, 1666', (c1850). Artist: Unknown

Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Hieronymus Bosch, tempera on wood panel, detail, Circa 1490, Circa 1450-1516, Portugal, Lisbon, National Museum Antiga

ARTE BARROCO. ESPAÑA. JUAN DE LA CORTE. "FIESTA EN LA PLAZA MAYOR o JUEGO DE CAÑAS EN LA PLAZA MAYOR". Museo Municipal. Madrid.

Execution of Louis XVI: Last Words of the King to His People 1793 Artist Unknown Copper engraving Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

Napoleon at Saint-Bernard pass by Jacques Louis David, oil on canvas, 1800, 1748-1825, France, Paris, Musee de l'Histoire de France, 260x221

Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer / "La Paz de Wad-Ras", 1870, Oil on canvas, 3.17 x 5.87 m.

Cola di Rienzo, Contemplating the ruins of Rome from above, 1855, by Federico Faruffini (1831-1869), oil on canvas, 146x122 cm.

Prisekin, Sergei Nikolaevich (*1957) Central Artist's House, Moscow Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia History

Historia de Catalunya. Vísperas sicilianas. Por ese nombre se conoce al acontecimiento histórico de la matanza de franceses en Sicilia en el año 1282, que acabó causando el fin del reinado de Carlos de Anjou en la isla, sustituido por los reyes de Aragón. Cromo de Xacolata Juncosa. Año 1932. Author: Albert Mestre Moragas.

A Masquerade, or, the Burial of the Sardine by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, circa 1812-1814, Spain, Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes

Garibaldi and shipment of a thousand, 50th anniversary, surprise of Palermo, 1860 liebig figurine, 1910

Photos Series Deerslayer, Cooper, Uncas binNT farewell Tamenund the Mingo to fight / Bilderserie Lederstrumpf, Cooper, Unkas binnt Abschied von Tamenund um die Mingos zu bekämpfen, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital verbesserte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

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