Some of the most innovative narrative paintings, they also show the bigger picture of changing ideas and values.
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A lesson from Aristotle on how to craft powerful narrative in paintings.
In little more than a century, narrative painting has been transformed from the moribund and shunned, to the innovative and exciting.
War Artists can work in any of the genres, but history painting is a natural choice. Here are some of the best from 1800 to 1945.
Long forgotten now, panoramas were hugely popular in the 1800s, and some were strongly narrative.
Some of the Impressionists did paint (possibly) narrative works. But they didn’t always work out.
Despite his reputation, his narratives often addressed serious and subtle issues, and his was a master of narrative painting.
Although they followed narrative conventions, they were unusual for showing static tableaux rather than action.
Beautiful painterly works showing Arthurian and classical legends, in the years before the First World War.
How the quest to reform history painting only confirms its traditional narrative tools.
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