Narrative Paintings of Historical Events

A selection of paintings depicting dramatic historical narratives, emphasizing emotional expressions of characters involved in significant moments.

Jesus Carrying his Cross by Charles Le Brun, (1619-1690), France, Paris, Musee du Louvre

Stories of the Prodigal Son - Departure, by Wael Cornelis de, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Liguria, Genoa, Private collection. Whole artwork. Leave farewell departure family growth horses cry men women door building dogs.

Vecellio di Gregorio Tiziano / 'Adoration of the Magi', 16th century, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 141 cm x 219 cm, P00433. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. CHILD JESUS. VIRGIN MARY.

Paintings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo * August 30, 1727 in Venice March 3, 1804 in Venice, Italian painter, carnival scene, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Ferdinand Bol / Moses and Jethro / C17th

the charlatan, 1756. oil on canvas, by Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

SAINT LOUIS A DAMIETTE Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret (1782-1863). Saint Louis in Damiette, 1819.

Queen Cleophis Offering Wine To Alexander The Great After His Conquest Of Mazaka. Queen Kleophis offers Alexander the Great Wine after the conquest of Mazagae. On the left Alexander with the officers of his army, on the right the queen with her courtames. The operation takes place on a terrace for the palace. On the right the palace with walls decorated with reliefs and spectators on a balcony. A large round fortress tower in the background. Pendant of SK-A-161.

Jesus Carrying his Cross by Charles Le Brun, (1619-1690), France, Paris, Musee du Louvre

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Domenico (1727-1804). The Minuet. 1756. Bequest of Francesc Camb. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia.

EL PASO DEL MAR ROJO - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/LIENZO - 129 x 176 cm - NP 883 - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: ESTEBAN MARCH (1610-1668). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPANIEN. MOSES.

DESEMBARCO EN VALENCIA DE FERNANDO EL CATOLICO Y GERMANA DE FOIX - SIGLO XIX. Author: JOSE RIBELLES Y HELIP (1775-1835). Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-COLEGIO PIO V. Valencia. SPANIEN. FOIX GERMANA DE. FERNANDO EL CATOLICO 2ª ESPOSA. FERNANDO II EL CATOLICO 2ª ESPOSA. FERNANDO EL CATOLICO (1452-1516) FERNANDO II ARAGO. FERNANDO II DE ARAGON (1452/1516) REY CATOLICO.

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533). Dutch painter. Healing of Blind Man of Jericho (triptych), 1531. Central panel. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

The castle and the village of Versailles, by A. F. Van Der Meulen, France 17th Century. Detail.

'The Triumph of Mordecai'. Holland. Dimensions: 48,8x64,2 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: P. Wiechers ( ).

The Feast of Saint. Martin. After Martin van Cleave, reworked by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Oil on panel. 76.5 x 107cm.

anonymous, 18th century, allegory of the dense of the Philippines by Don Simon de Anda y Salazar , oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain

The Marriage Staircase: An Allegory of Marriage. The wedding trap, allegory on marriage. Couples run aided a big trolley or safety net. Cupid is in the middle. At the bottom left Dancing Putti, including a black putto, on the music of a Sater. To the trap, men and women walk, the dead turns dead with a heel.

Continence of Scipio, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1650 - 1655

Landscape with people in historical clothing by Lucas van Leyden, oil on wood, 1489/94-1533, Ukraine, Odessa, Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 63x85, 5

Painting titled Punch or May Day by Benjamin Robert Haydon dated 1829

The night round (copy according to Rembrandt) F�lix Ziem (1821-1911). The night round, copy after Rembrandt. Oil on canvas.

'Jephthae's Daughter'. Flanders, Circa 1645. Dimensions: 48x64 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Peeter van Lint.

SERIE SOBRE LA TOMA DE SICILIA EN EL SIGLO XV - ESCUELA FLAMENCA - PINTURA SOBRE COBRE DEL SIGLO XVII. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. MONCADA ANTONIO DE.

The Conquest of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus. Date/Period: 1638. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,480 mm (58.26 in); Width: 1,990 mm (78.34 in). Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.

The Building of the Tower of Babel, 17th century

Funerary Homage to Duguesclin oil on canvas, by Jean-Jacques-Baptiste Brunet (1850-1920). Bertrand Duguesclin (c1320-1380), Breton knight, Constable of France 1369. Expelled English from France in 1374 at end of the Hundred Years War.

fine arts, Brueghel, Jan the Elder, (1568 - 1625), painting, ""sea harbour with Christ `s sermon"", 1615, oak panel, 78 cm x 119 cm, Old Pinakothek, Munich,

The death of Epaminondas. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1774, after B. West.

Parade scene by Franz Kruger, oil on canvas, 1824-1830, 1797-1857, Germany, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 249x347

Battle for the Gold Staff (Dominion of the World). Allegory of the Victory of the Dutch over the Spanish Fleet at Gibraltar, 25 April 1607. Dating: c. 1615 - c. 1630. Measurements: support: h 38.4 cm × w 55.9 cm × d 0.5 cm; d 6 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Adam Willaerts.

'Seven Affairs of Charity'. Holland, 1657. Dimensions: 60,3x84,23 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Jost Cornelisz Droochsloot.

'Rebecca at the Well'. Italy, Late 1690s. Dimensions: 72x63 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: FRANCESCO SOLIMENA.

Southwark Fair. Date/Period: 1733. Painting. Oil on canvas. Width: 151.1 cm. Height: 120.7 cm. Author: William Hogarth.

Columbus lands in the New World. From a 19th century engraving by George Lang, after a work by John James Barralet.

Carlo Goldoni in Pisa recites a sonnet to the Arcadian colony of Alpheus, 1866-1867, by Annibale Gatti (1828-1909), the curtain of the theater Verdi, Pisa, Tuscany. Italy, 19th century.

War time by Konstantin Nikolayevich Filippov, Oil on cardboard, 1862, 1830-1878, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 33x46, 5

Hippolyte Delaroche dit Paul (1797-1856). "The winners of the Bastille in front of the town hall". Oil on canvas, 1831-1839. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. IVEME IV 4th 4th 4th arrondissement, Bastille, Warage, ENTER, ENTER, FOOT, Town Hotel, French Revolution, Winner, Decheal Vert, Oil on canvas, Scene

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes; Joachim Beuckelaer, Netherlandish, about 1534 - about 1574; 1563; Oil on panel; Unframed: 110.5 x 210.8 cm (43 1/2 x 83 in.), Framed: 129.5 x 232.7 x 9.5 cm (51 x 91 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Continence of Scipio lore by Jan Steen; Oil on canvas; 1660s

Halte de chasse (hunting break)

Jan Weenix (1621-1661). "The pleasure game". Oil on wood. 1667. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 156733-1 Sitting, boat, rider, staircase, group people, wood oil, musical instrument, joyful, walking, ocean sea, pleasure, gender scene, statue, cello, sailboat, 17th 18th 18th 17th 17th 17th century

anonymous, 18th century, allegory of the dense of the Philippines by Don Simon de Anda y Salazar , oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain

anonymous, 18th century, allegory of the dense of the Philippines by Don Simon de Anda y Salazar , oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain.

Italy - Lazio Region - Caprarola in the province of Viterbo. Farnese Palace. Hall of annals 'Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani'. Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, Francis I, Charles V and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese enter Paris. Fresco, 1560-66

The Cake Seller, 1630, by Pieter van Laer (ca 1599-1642).

Ladies and knights, The Myth of Venus and Cupid, and the Happy age, ca 1570, fresco, Room of Aetas Felicior or of the Kiss, by Jacopo Zanguidi knows as il Bertoja (1544-1574) and Girolamo Mirola (1530-1570), Palazzo del Giardino Ducale, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, detail.

BERRUGUETE, Pedro (1450-1504). Saint Dominic de Guzman Presiding over an Auto-da-fe. ca. 1490. Detail. Oil on wood. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Plague On Ashdod In 1030 B.C. 17th Century Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665 French) Oil On Canvas Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

John Wootton, 1682-1764, British, Preparing for the Hunt, ca. 1745. Oil on canvas.

Carlo Goldoni, 25 February 1707, 6 February 1793, was an Italian comedy poet and librettist. He portrays one of his comedies in the Scotto Garden in P...

ALENZA y NIETO, Leonardo (1807-1845). Bandits in the mountains. 1st half 19th c. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo Nacional del Romanticismo.

Cleobis and Biton Oil on canvas Jean-Baptiste Alizard French; active 1762-1776

Leonardo Alenza (1807-1845). Spanish painter. Scene outside a wayside Inn. Museum of Fine Arts. Bilbao. Spain.

Antonio del Castillo Saavedra / 'José y sus hermanos', ca. 1655, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 109 cm x 145 cm, P00951. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Rest in the forest, Maximiliaan van der Gucht, c. 1650 Wall carpet with hunting company with loot. On the left a group of four people: three women, resp. Dressed in yellow, blue and floral red and a man in red clothing. In the middle is a hunter, with a heron hanging; Furthermore, a surrounding horse with a man who just steps out of the stirrup, followed by an apple fungus with Amazon, coming from a high hill. On the right, and surrounded by dogs, lie on and over each other a boar, a deer, hares and birds, over which a group of three people bend: between two women, in blue and red, a man wraps his arms around both. A hunting lodge in the distance. The scene is set in a forest landscape with see -through in the middle and with high trees on the sides, while the foreground is filled with large -leaf flowering plants, including rose, braam, chamomile, iris, some of which are repeating. See a fleshy leaf plant on the left. The wall carpet is part of the "English yachts" series. maker: Delf

Levade, The Levade is one of the schools above ground of horsemanship, Painting by Jacob Jordaens, Historical, Digitally restored reproduction of a historical work of art

America (16th c.). Spanish conquest of Mexico. Entrance of Juan de Grijalva into the Tabasco estuary. Painting belonging to the series 'Conquest of MŽxico'. Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. America's Museum.

Coronation, by Horace Vernet, oil on canvas, 19th century, 1789-1863, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Russian Museum, 60x95

Equestrian Portrait of a Hussar Officer by Bellotto, Bernardo (1720-1780) / Art History Museum, Vienne / 1773 / Italy, Venetian School / Oil on canvas / Portrait,Genre / 73,5x65,5

Mohort - royal gift. Suchodolski, January (1797-1875), painter

The Quack Doctor - Gerard Dou, 1652

Battle by Joseph de Montalegre, copper engraving, watercolour, (active 1710-1715), State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 45, 4x38

MOCTEZUMA II. ULTIMO EMPERADOR AZTECA . 1467 - 1520. " MOCTEZUMA ES APRESADO POR HERNAN CORTES 1519. PINTURA DE LA SERIE " CONQUISTA DE MEXICO ". MUSEO DE AMERICA . MADRID.

anonymous, 18th century, allegory of the dense of the Philippines by Don Simon de Anda y Salazar , oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain.

BAYEU Y SUBIAS, Francisco (1734-1795). Picnic in countryside. 2nd half 16th c.II. Neoclassicism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

The Truce of Nice, fresco by the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, 1560-1566 in the Hall of Farnesina Magnificience of Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola. Italy, 16th century.

Ugone di Duino taking delivery of the city of Trieste on behalf of the Duke of Austria, detail from the Dedication of Trieste to Austria, 1382, by Cesare dell'Acqua (1821-1905). Middle Ages, Italy, 14th century.

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Dance on the Banks of the River Manzanares. 1777. Cartoon for tapestry. Weaved at the Real Fbrica de tapices (Royal Tapestry Factory) for the dinning room of El Pardo in 1778 and another for El Escorial. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Louis XIV, known as "the Sun King" (1638-1715). King of France (1643-1715). Cabinet of Louis XIV of France. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume VIII, 1881.

The Babin Republic. Matejko, Jan (1838-1893), painter

The Ambassadorial Delegation Passing through the Second Courtyard of the Topkap&#305 Palace by Vanmour (Van Mour), Jean-Baptiste (1671-1737) / Pera Museum, Istanbul / Orientalism / 1720s / Flanders / Oil on canvas / Genre / 90x121

Landing of Columbus John Vanderlyn (1775-1852/American)

Fontainbleau Castle seen from the forecourt by A. F. Van Der Meulen, France 17th Century.

Rape of the Sabines; Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian (Sienese), 1477 - after 1535; about 1520; Oil on panel; Unframed: 66 x 144.8 cm (26 x 57 in.), Framed: 94 x 172.1 x 10.2 cm (37 x 67 3/4 x 4 in.)

Earthquake in Rocca di Papa near Rome, 1830, by Petr Vasilevic Basin (1793-1877).

ENTREGA DEL PREMIO EN UN TORNEO MEDIEVAL - SIGLO XV. Author: ANJOU RENE DE.

RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Proxy Marriage of Marie de Medici and Henri IV, 5th October 1600. 1621 - 1625. Scene of the wedding held in Florence. Painting from a series of 21 works dedicated to Marie de Medici's life. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum.

The Story of Griselda. Part I: Marriage by Master of the Story of Griselda (active End of 15th cen.)/ National Gallery, London/ c.1490-1495/ Italy, School of Siena/ Tempera and oil on wood/ Renaissance/ 61,6x154,3/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Toeput / The Miraculous Draught of Fish

Oil painting by Antoine Watteau 1684 - 1721; les charmes de la vie. (The Music Party). 1718

Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla y Tolín / 'The first landing of Christopher Columbus in America'. 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

England, London, The City, Museum of London, Dirk Stoop's Painting of Charles II's Cavalcade Through The City of London

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. DON QUIJOTE. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. ALCALA DE HENARES 1547-1616. " LAS BODAS DE CAMACHO " ( DETALLE ). EPISODIO DE SU NOVELA "DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA". OLEO DE JOSE MORENO CARBONERO. MUSEO ACADEMIA BELLAS ARTES SAN FERNANDO.MADRID.

King of Wester Numidia by Francesco Fontebasso, oil on canvas, 1709-1769, Lithuania, Kaunas , State M. Ciurlionis Art Museum, 39x79

Bambocciata (Childishness). Date/Period: First Half of the XVII Century. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 500 mm (19.68 in); Width: 690 mm (27.16 in). Author: MICHELANGELO CERQUOZZI.

Denis van Alsloot / 'Skating Masquerade, or Carnival on Ice at the Kipdorppoort Moats in Antwerp', ca. 1620, Flemish School, Oil on panel, 57 cm x 100 cm, P01346. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. Author: DENIS VAN ALSLOOT.

Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople - Eugène Delacroix, circa 1840

Alexander Kotzebue (1815-1889). German painter. The Capture of Berlin on 28 September 1760, 1849. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Conquest of Mexico. Hernán Cortés arresting Moctezuma. 1519-1521. Painted in copper. 18th century. Madrid, America museum. Author: ANONYMOUS. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Palazzo Ducale, Ducal Palace, Martina Franca, Taranto, Apulia, Italy

Triumph of Charles V. unknown c. 1700-1719 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'6" x W 22'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: French Weaving Center: Nancy Ownership History: Commissioned by Duke Leopold of Lorraine. Ffoulke coll. (1891). French & Co. purchased from C. M. F. Charles M. Ffoulke, n.d. SS 10772. French & Co. purchased from Charles M. Ffoulke estate 9/1/1916; sold to Raimundo Ruiz 6/30/1950 SS 46335. Tapestry was offered to the Getty Museum in 1996. Inscriptions: Inscription in lower right corner: G (for "Gobelins"; not visible in photograph) Procession with Charles V enthroned on chariot drawn by 4 horses with goddess of Fame holding laurel wreath above his head & with female personifications seated around him (=4 continents), accompanied by cavalcade; courtiers approach from background; procession arrives at palace terrace where empress stands surrounded by her court (BRD) picture-frame border with acanthus-shell clasps in corners; (UPR BRD) centered by acanthus b

'Dewar's Whisky', 1912. Artist: Unknown.

CORTES Y AGUILAR , ANDRES PINTOR ESPAÑOL . SEVILLA 1815 - 1852 " FERIA DE SEVILLA , AÑO 1846 " , OLEO COLECCION CONDE DE IBARRA . SEVILLA SEVILLA PINTADO. Author: ANDRES CORTES Y AGUILAR (1812-1879).

The Return of Napoleon to the Island of Lobau after the Battle of Essling, May 23, 1809 by Meynier, Charles (1768-1832) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles / 1812 / France / Oil on canvas / History / 473x529 / Classicism

The Coronation of Napoleon(1769-1821) by Jacques-Louis David (1484-1825) in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, 2 December 1804, Paris. 1805-1807. Oil on canvas. Louvre Museum. Paris, France.

Alexander I Crowned King of Poland Stachowicz, Micha (1768 1825)

Vicente Carducho / 'San Juan de Mata entrega las cartas del Papa al rey de Marruecos en la primera redención', 1634, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 241 cm x 198 cm, P03364. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Judgement of Solomon, 1726-1729, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), fresco. Patriarchal Palace, Red Room, Udine.

Sale of cotton fabrics, detail from the port of Rochefort, 1762, by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789).

The Pottery Vendor', 1778. 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.

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