Historical Scenes and Characters

Paintings illustrating historical events and figures, featuring dynamic compositions and dramatic expressions, evoking strong emotions.

People pleading by Charles Le Brun, Oil on canvas, 1661, 1619-1690, Musee de l'Histoire de France, 298x453

Painting titled 'Hector taking leave of Andromache' by Anton Losenko. Anton Pavlovich Losenko (1737-1773) a Russian neoclassical painter and academician.

Tintoretto / Esther Faints / Painting

David Teniers II and Jan van Kessel I (Antwerp, 1610-Brussels, 1690 and Antwerp, 1626-79). The Submission of the Sicilian Rebels to Antonio Moncada in 1411 (1663). Oil on copper. 54 x 68.2 cm. Museum: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Giovanni Battista Tortiroli (1601-1651). Italian painter. Massacre of the Innocents. Oil on canvas, 1625-1650. From the church of San Domenico. Museo Civico Ala Ponzone. Cremona. Lombardy. Italy.

A Party of Merrymakers ca. 1635-38 Pieter Jansz. Quast Dutch Viewers of the time would have taken in at a glance not only the off-key carousing but also signsthe fancy shoes, frizzy hair, open collar, and so onthat make the symbolic satyr redundant. Quast worked in the cosmopolitan milieus of Amsterdam and The Hague. His paintings and finished drawings reveal a broad knowledge of Dutch, Flemish, and French popular imagery (including Callot’s etchings) as well as the comic stage.. A Party of Merrymakers 437352

People pleading by Charles Le Brun, Oil on canvas, 1661, 1619-1690, Musee de l'Histoire de France, 298x453

St. Paul Before the Praetor, 17th century, Attributed to Nicolaus Knüpfer, Dutch, 1603-1655, 21 1/4 x 31 5/8 in. (53.98 x 80.33 cm) (sight)25 3/4 x 36 in. (65.41 x 91.44 cm) (outer frame), Oil on wood panel, Netherlands, 17th century

Jan Havickszoon Steen (1626-1679). Dutch painter. Samson and Delilah, 1660. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.

'The Betrothal of Tobias', 17th century, Oil on canvas, 76 x 103 cm, P03152. Author: ANTONIO DE BELLIS. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. TOBIAS / SAN TOBIAS.

Solomon worshiping idols, 1724, by Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), oil on canvas, 128x151 cm.

The Family of Darius before Alexander. Date/Period: 1565. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 236.2 cm (92.9 in); Width: 474.9 cm (15.5 ft). Author: PAOLO VERONESE.

A medical practitioner examines the urine and takes the pulse of a woman, while another man gives her advice. Oil painting in the manner of Jan Steen.

Samson's Wedding Feast, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 1638.

'The Denial of Saint Peter', ca. 1625, Oil on canvas, 172 cm x 252 cm, P02788. Author: NICOLAS TOURNIER. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. APOSTLE PETER.

Rebecca Receiving Presents from Abraham's Servant. Dating: 1656. Measurements: h 138 cm × w 174 cm; d 8 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Hendrick Heerschop.

Pilate Washing his Hands, Preti, Mattia, 1660.

The Card Players, Lucas van Leyden, (copied from), c. 1550-99, Dutch painting, oil on panel. Upper-middle-class adults play a popular game called primero. The gentleman holding the ace of spadesóthe wild cardópoints to a pile of money in anticipation of h (BSLOC_2016_6_167)

Juan García Martínez / 'King Henry IV of Castile before the people of Segovia'. 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Tapestry with the Infant Moses trampling on Pharaoh's Crown. Dated 17th Century

Academy by Lamplight. Date/Period: 1770. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,270 mm (50 in); Width: 1,010 mm (39.76 in). Author: Joseph Wright of Derby.

Francisco Antolínez y Sarabia (Attributed to) / 'The Presentation of the Virgin'. Second half of the XVII century. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

The Last Supper (Ultima Cena), by Paolo Caliari known as Paolo Veronese, 16th Century, oil on canvas, 220 x 523 cm

Charles the Great with musician by Franz Riepenhausen, oil on canvas, 1820, 1786-1831, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 103x187

Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels Belgium, Frans Francken (II), c. 1630 - c. 1640

Pharaoh gives Sarah back to Abraham. Dating: 1640. Measurements: support: h 96.9 cm × w 129.6 cm; d 7.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: ISAAC ISAACSZ.

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

Jose Maria Obregon (1832-1902). Mexican painter. Discovery of pulque, 1869. National Museum of Art. Mexico City. Mexico.

'Marriage at Cana'. Holland, First half of the 1630s. Dimensions: 105x165 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Pieter Fransz de Grebber.

Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles v in Brussels, Frans Francken (II), c. 1635 - c. 1640 painting Allegory on the abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, October 25, 1555. In the middle at the top, Charles V sits on his throne, left Ferdinand I, on the right Philip II, king of Spain. For Philip, the personifications of the areas of the Empire kneel with banners. In the foreground, personifications of the continents bring America, Africa, Europe and Asia gifts. On the left Neptunus on his triumphal wagon pulled by sea horses, with mermaids and mermaids, tritons etc. On the cart a globe and the two columns with a banderole with the inscription Plus Ultra. oil paint (paint). panel painting continents represented allegorically. abdication (of a ruler). triumph of Neptune Brussels

ARTE SIGLO XVIII. ESPAÑA. TREMULLES I ROIG, Manuel (Barcelona, 1715-1791). Pintor catalán. "INVESTIDURA DE CARLOS III COMO CANONIGO DE LA CATEDRAL DE BARCELONA" (1768). Detalle DE LA NOBLEZA CATALANA ASISTENTE AL ACTO. Sala Capitular. Catedral de Barcelona. Cataluña.

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Dating: c. 1540 - c. 1545. Measurements: support: h 96 cm × w 194 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jan van Scorel (circle of). Jan Swart van Groningen (rejected attribution).

The Card Players Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533/Netherlandish)

Esther before Ahasuerus. Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, born Rome 1593-died Naples 1654 or later). Dimensions: 82 x 107 3/4in. (208.3 x 273.7cm).The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Artemisia worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This painting, among her most ambitious, recounts the story of the Jewish heroine Esther, who appeared before King Ahasuerus to plead for her people, breaking with court etiquette and risking death. She fainted in the king's presence, but her request found favor. The story is conceived not as a historical recreation but as a contemporary theatrical performance. Initially Artemisia included the detail of a black boy restraining a dog--still partly visible beneath the marble pavement, to the left of Ahasuerus's knee. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Leonardo da Vinci receiving the commission for the Last Supper at Ludovico il Moro's court in Milan, 1495, by Giuseppe Diotti (1779-1846), 1823. Age of Sforza, Italy, 15th century.

Detail from a painting titled 'The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio' by Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765) an Italian and architect. Dated 18th Century

Master of the Legend of Catherine and Master of the Legend of Barbara (actives in Brussels last third of the 15th century). Triptych with scenes from the life of Job, ca.1466-1500. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.

Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules), Dossi, Dosso (ca. 1486-1542)

King Cyrus Handing over the Treasure Looted from the Temple of Jerusalem. Dating: 1655 - 1669. Measurements: h 408 cm × w 409 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Ferdinand Bol.

Piero Della Francesca (Sansepolcro, 1416-1417 -1492) . Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba c. 1452 Fresco, at San Francesco, Arezzo. ca. 1452

Musee du Louvre, Louvre museum, Paris, France.Paolo Caliari (Veronese), the supper at Emmaus (or pilgrims of Emmaus), oil on canvas, about 1559.

Jean-Jacques Forty. "The peoples of the world pay tribute to the supreme being". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 39431-15 Allegory, Greek antiquity, sketch, being supreme, French revolution, oil on canvas

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista (1696-1770). Marriage of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and Beatrice I of Burgundy in 1156. 1751. GERMANY. WŸrzburg. Royal Palace. Decoration of the Imperial Hall. Baroque art. Fresco.

Attributed to Fougeat. "Marat funeral pump at the Cordeliers church, July 16, 1793.", exhibited at the living room of 1793. Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 26718-1 Cordeliers church, funeral, politician, French revolution, French revolutionary, oil on canvas

The Champion; 1824; by Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865)..

Lorenzo Vallés / 'The Dementia of Juana of Castile', 1866, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 238 cm x 313 cm, P04669. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Sacrifice of Polyxena. Giovanni Battista Pittoni (Italian (Venetian), 1687 - 1767)

A Scene From Roman History. Nicholas Colombel (1644-1717). Oil On Canvas, 1704.

Marriage between Alexander the Great and Roxanne, fresco by Giambattista Crosato (1686-1758), 1753, Villa Marcello, Levada, Veneto, Italy.

Cathedral: painting by miguel manrique, 1600, malaga, Spain

El minuet 1756 by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804. Oil on canvas. The minuet is inspired by the protagonists in the 'Commedia dell'arte' by Carlo Goldoni.

Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand, April 7, 1492 1884-85 Wenzel von Brozik (1851-1901 Czech) Colored wood engraving

Zeuxis Choosing a Model from the Beautiful Girls of Croton', by Francois-Andre Vincent, 1789. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France.

Pair of humorous paintings, 'The Peasant's Sorrow', and 'The Peasant's Joy', by workshop of David Vinckboons, after 1619, Dutch oil painting. Richly dressed townsfolk impose on a farmer for food and drink and are then attacked and chased away by the peasants (BSLOC_2016_3_171)

ARMIDA ANTE GODOFREDO DE BOUILLON - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/COBRE - 27 x 39 cm - NP 1825 - ESCUELA FLAMENCA. Author: DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Daniel and Cyrus Before the Idol Bel. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

Gathering of Gamblers with Hurdy-Gurdy Player, c. 1660, Master of the Procession, French, active 1645-1660, 37 3/8 x 65 in. (94.93 x 165.1 cm) (canvas)49 3/4 x 77 1/2 x 5 in. (126.37 x 196.85 x 12.7 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, France, 17th century

The Masked Ball.

Congratulations to the newly married couple in a manor house by Myasoedov, Grigori Grigoryevich (1834-1911)/ State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/ 1860/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 36x43,5/ Genre

Vladimir Great by Johann Leberecht Eggink, oil on canvas, 1781/87-1867, Russia, St Petersburg, State Museum of Religious History, 192x265

Rafael Tegeo (1798-1856). Spanish painter. Saint Louis of France receives the crown of thorns from Baldwin II. Oil on canvas, 1832-1835. Michel Descours Gallery. Lyon. France.

Assassination by Stanislav Khlebovsky, Oil on canvas, 1861, 1835-1884, Russia, Arkhangelsk, Regional Art Museum, 64x92

Death of Stefan Czarniecki Suchodolski, January (1797 1875)

Market Day in Milan (Piazza Fontana), Italy, ca 1650, unknown artist. Detail.

The Quack by Dou, Gerard (Gerrit) (1613-1675) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1652 Holland Oil on wood Painting Genre

Francesco Solimena (1657-1747). Pintor italiano de estilo barroco. " Eneas y Dido", 1739-41. Oleo sobre tela. Museo de Capodimonte. Nápoles. Italia.

Successor to Throne by Baron Mikhail Petrovich Klodt, Oil on cardboard, 19th century, 1835-1914, Russia, Minsk, National Art Museum of Belorussian Republic, 28, 3x39, 2

Fortune Teller by Jan Cossiers, Oil on canvas, 1640s, 1600-1671, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 132x155

Overdoor by Anonymous Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 1825-1826 Colour lithograph Graphic arts Genre

The Parable of the Prodigal Son - The Prodigal Son returning Home. Hieronymus Janssens (1624-1693). Oil on canvas. 48.8 x 58.8cm.

Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684). Dutch Golden Age painter. Officer and Two Card Players, 1652-1655. Detail. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.

Antonio Perez released from Prison by the Rebels in 1591 - 19th century - oil on canvas - 180x246 cm. Author: FERRAN MANUEL. Location: ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN JORGE. Barcelona. SPAIN.

The Meeting of Gautier, Count of Antwerp, and his Daughter, Violante. Giuseppe Cades; Italian, 1750-1799. Date: 1782-1792. Dimensions: 14 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. (37.2 x 69.7 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

19th cent. painting. Isolde at Tristan's deathbed. Neuschwanstein.

France, Paris, Triumph of Marat, 1794

Rubens / Adoration of the Kings

Last supper by Pieter Paul Rubens, oil on wood, circa 1630-1631, 1577-1640, Russia, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 45,8x41

The Coronation of Charlemagne, (detail), 1516-1517; Fresco by the Italian High Renaissance artist (Raphael), Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520). The Coronation of Charlemagne is a painting by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Though it is believed that Raphael did make the designs for the composition, the fresco was probably painted by Gianfrancesco Penni. The painting shows how Charlemagne was crowned Imperator Romanorum Holy Roman Emperor), by Pope Leo III (pontiff from 795 to 816) on Christmas Evening, 800.

The Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. Dated: 1618/1628. Dimensions: overall: 61.6 x 45.4 cm (24 1/4 x 17 7/8 in.). Medium: oil on panel. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Workshop of Domenico Fetti.

The renewal of the alliance between France and Switzerland in Notre Dame in Paris, King Louis XIV and the ambassador of the thirteen cantons, 17th century French tapestry based on a cartoon by Pierre de Seve the Younger, from the series Story of the King.

Tsar looking at women in traditional dresses by Grigori Semyonovich Sedov, Oil on canvas, 1882, 1836-1884, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 127x164

Italian Comedians by Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - painting on canvas Date: 1720

Hercules and Omphale. Date/Period: Ca. 1640. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 1,270 mm (50 in); Width: 1,803 mm (70.98 in). Author: Bernardo Cavallino.

Jan Matejko (1838-1893). Polish painter. The Prussian Homage, 1882. National Museum. Krakow. Poland.

Memling / Adoration of the Kings

Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921), . La Excomulgación de Roberto el Piadoso, . 1875, . Óleo sobre lienzo, Museo de Orsay, Ministerio de Cultura y Comunicación Francés, Paris, France,Western Europe.

The hall of the compass, by Gabriel Bella (1730-1799), oil on canvas, 95x125 cm. Detail.

Banquet Scene with a Lute Player, Nicolas Tournier, French, 1590-1639, c.1625, Oil on canvas, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe, Paintings, 47 3/4 x 65 3/4 in. (121.3 x 167 cm)

Berenice Reproaching Ptolomy; 1802; Oil on canvas Jean-Joseph Taillasson; French; 1745-1809

The Wedding at Cana, painted 1562-63 (portraits include Francis I of France, Mary of England, Charles V, and, as musicians, Titian, himself, his brother Benedetto, Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano and Palladio)

Playing cards. Rombouts, Theodoor (1597-1637), painter

Henry VIII (1491-1547) Introducing Anne Boleyn At Court William Hogarth (1697-1764 British) Private Collection

Scene From Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, 1865 By Sir John Gilbert Illustrates Act III, Scene I, Oil Painting, Literature, William Shakespeare, Theatre, Literature, History painting

Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel; Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669); 1633; Oil on panel; 23.5 × 30.2 cm (9 1,4 × 11 7,8 in.)

Marcello Bacciarelli (1731-1818). Italian painter. The Polish-Lithuanian Union in Lublin, 1796. Oil on canvas. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow, Poland.

Judging of witch by Frans Francken the Younger, Oil on wood, 1581-1642, 17th century, Private Collection, 36x56, 5

DISPUTA DEL SACRAMENTO O TRIUNFO DE LA RELIGION FRESCO DE LA ESTANCIA DEL SELLO PINTADO EN 1509. DETALLE LATERAL DERECHO. Author: RAFAEL SANZIO O RAFAEL DE URBINO (1483-1520). Location: MUSEOS VATICANOS-ESTANCIA DEL SELLO. VATICANO. FRA ANGELICO. SIXTO IV PAPA. SAN JERONIMO (347-420). Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).

Salome receives the head of John the Baptist, painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606) (1669), Historic, digitally enhanced reproduction of an original from the period

Portuguese School. First third of the 16th century. Master of the altarpiece of Saint Auta. Polyptych. Altarpiece of St Auta. Martyrdom of the Eleven Thousand Virgins. Central panel of the altarpiece of the old chapel of Saint Auta, Convent of Madre de Deus, Lisbon. Detail. National Museum of Ancient Art. Lisbon, Portugal. Author: Unknown Portuguese master. 16th century.

The Flagellation of Saint Engratia by Bermejo, Bartolome (ca 1440-ca 1498) Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona ca 1475 Oil on wood 92,5x52 Spain Gothic Bible Painting

Company playing. Lambrechts, Jan Baptist (1680- post 1731), painter

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