Dramatic Historical Scenes

Artworks depicting historical or mythological events, often rich in emotion and character interactions, captured in various styles.

Samuel Slays Aga James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1870), Fredegonda at the Deathbed of Praetextatus, ca. 1864. Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Fiuminata, località Laverino (Italia, Marche - provincia di Macerata), Pieve di Santa Maria di Laverino, interno. (parete destra) Girolamo di Matteo da Gualdo Tadino, Il martirio di San Giovanni Evangelista, 1506, affresco.

Effects of Bad Government in the City, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1339, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala della Pace, west wall. Detail. Two armed men dragging a woman: man's body murdered at the bottom right. Dark: brown shades: hues: tones white red black beige.

Faust visiting Gretchen in Prison. Engraving by Peter Cornelius, Germna (1783-1867). 1816. Bilder zu Goethe's Faust. Author: PETER VON CORNELIUS.

Interior views of Albrechtsburg, Murals in Albrechtsburg, Sidonie of Poděbrady, 1921, Meißen, Gemälde im Schloß Albrechtsburg, Germany

Samuel Slays Aga James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York

The Ramparts of God's House. John Melhuish Strudwick (1849-1937). Oil on canvas. 61 x 85.1cm

Juan González; Miguel González / 'Series of the Conquest of Mexico'. 1698. Shell work, Oil on canvas mounted on panel, panel. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Chopins Polonaise. Kwiatkowski, Teofil (1809-1891), painter

JUANA DE ARCO EN LA CORONACION DE CARLOS VII FRANCIA (1920)- PINTURA HISTORICISTA-ESCUELA FRANCESA. Author: MAURICE DENIS. JOAN OF ARC. ORLEANS DONCELLA DE. CARLOS VII EL BIENAMADO FRANCIA.

LA RONDA (JUERGA). Author: Eduardo Martínez Vázquez. Location: MUSEO DE SAN TELMO. DONOSTI-SAN SEBASTIAN. Guipuzcoa. SPAIN.

Ecce homo / German painter / C15th

Street scene in Cairo; Stabrowski, Kazimierz (1869-1929); around 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);Arabs, Cairo (Tunisia), Young Poland (Styl), Orient, Partage Plus, Stabrowska, Julia (1895-1974), Stabrowska, Julia (1895-1974)-collection, Tunisia, Dar (provenance), Polish painting, city ( genre scenes), orientalism, Polish pastels, Poland (culture), genre scenes, streets

Interior of anInn. Artist, possibly by: Pancho (Francisco) Fierro, Peruvian, 1810-1879

Nesterov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (1862-1942) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Painting 30,6x48,6 Genre,History Fool's coat. Boyar Druzhina Andreyevich Morozov before Ivan the Terrible

Soldiers by a temple, detail from the Nilotic mosaic of the flooding of the river Nile in Egypt, from the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina, Lazio, Italy. Roman civilization, 1st century BC.

Window, detail from Stories of the passion of St Stephen, 1556, by Lattanzio Gambara (1530-1574), fresco in the apse half-dome of the Collegiate church of St Stephen, Vimercate, Lombardy, Italy, 11th-12th century.

Joseph Aubert (1849-1924). "Egyptian, Hebrew and Phoenician civilizations". Sketch for the school on rue Dombasle (14th arrondissement), 1879. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 33419-7 XIVth XIV 14th arrondissement 14th 14, Egyptian civilization, Decoration, Ecole rue Dombasle, sketch, Hebbic, Phenician

Oriental scene with a group of people around a fountain, Anonymous, Furne Fils & H. Tournier, 1850 - 1862 stereograph publisher: Parispublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print ornamental fountain

The scene of the first Christian of the Christians; Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902); 1885 (1885-00-00-1885-00-00);Roman Empire, Diocletian (Roman Emperor - CA 244 -Ca 313), Egypt, Isis (Egyptian goddess), Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Warsaw - 1860-1940), Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Warsaw - 1860-1940) - collection, crucifixion (Bible), academic (style), oriental architecture, martyrdom of Christians, slaves, antique scenes, religious scenes, sfinxes

Koschei the Immortal by Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhaylovich (1848-1926) / V. Vasnetsov Memorial Museum, Moscow / Russian Painting, End of 19th - Early 20th cen. / 1917-1926 / Russia / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 196x306

Tsar of Russia by Viktor Andreyevich Simov, oil on cardboard, 1858-1935, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, State Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod 10x14, 5

Stations of the Cross No. 8: "Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 37.5 x 50.4 cm (14 3/4 x 19 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: Approximately 30 x 50 in.. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Geoffrey Holt.

Mercy: David Spareth Saul's Life. Date/Period: 1854. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 610 mm (24.01 in); Width: 508 mm (20 in). Author: Richard Dadd.

The month of January, Domestic Scene, by Cristofano Rustici (1560-1640).

Walter A. Wood Grain Binder - Triumphant Entry into Constantinople, Farm Machinery

O Enter then His Gates with Praise'. The Arrival of King George V and Queen Mary at the Great West door of Saint Paul's Cathedral, Jubilee Day, 6 May 1935. Frank O. Salisbury (1874-1962). Charcoal, coloured chalk and watercolour on beige paper. Signed and dated May 6, 1935. 40.7 x 111.7cm. The finished work from this sketch hangs in the Guildhall Art Gal

Study for the Proclamation of Don Carlos, John Frederick Lewis, 1804-1876, British, between 1834 and 1838, Watercolor, gouache, black chalk and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 17 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (44.5 x 26.4 cm), buildings, crowd, hats, historical subject, men, scarves, women, Europe, Madrid, Spain

Burliuk, David Davidovich (1882-1967) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Painting 52x66 Mythology, Allegory and Literature Sviatoslav

Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Her Appeal to the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series II), 1906 Her Appeal to the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series: II)

Nathan y David en Jerusalén, detalle de las historias de David, 1534, Óleo sobre lienzo, 128 cm x 131 cm. Museum: MUSEE DU LOUVRE, Paris, France. Author: HANS SEBALD BEHAM.

REPRESENTACION DE AVILA EN MOSAICO. Location: España Square. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Farnese's ducal palace. ferdinando's flat. colorno. Italy

Guerra del Francés, siglo XIX. Llegada del sumado del santo Pedor a Manresa. Museo comarcal Manresa. Museum: MUSEU COMARCAL DE MANRESA. Author: FRANCESC CUIXART I BARJAU.

Scenes from the Lives of the Hermits of theThebaid. Artist, attributed to: Giuliano Amedei, Italian, ca. 1446-1496

One Hundred Old Men. Yosa Buson (1716-1784). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. 134.6 x 86.4cm.

The Magdalene Before Her Conversion (Madeleine avant sa conversion ) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Magdalene Before Her Conversion (Madeleine avant sa conversion ), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 11 1/16 x 5 1/2 in. (28.1 x 14 cm). Apart from Jesus, Mary Magdalene is the only individual in Tissots series accorded more than one study, or portrait—an exception that announces her importance, not only to the narrative itself but also to the artist. As scholars have suggested, Tissot appears to have modeled the Magdalenes features after his late mistress, Mrs. Kathleen Newton, who had died of tuberculosis in 1882. Like many in the nineteenth century, the painter was particularly interested in the occult, and he had attended séances in hopes of establishing contact with the spirit of his deceased beloved. In the image depicting her before her conversion, Mary Magdalene appears dressed in a colorful striped garment and adorned with jewels, her

Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets) 1884 or earlier Jean-Léon Gérôme French Bashi-bazouks, mercenary soldiers in the army of the Turkish sultan, were known for their lawlessness and brutality, but Gérôme usually depicted them at leisure, as he did here, rather than engaged in battle. His frequent repetitions of the subject over a thirty-year period, in conjunction with a technique that matured early and changed little, make these canvases difficult to date on the basis of style alone. Gérôme probably completed this painting soon before he sold it to his Parisian dealer, Goupil, in 1884.. Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets) 436481

Circus scene; Hegenbarth, Josef (1884-1962); 1930-1935 (1930-00-00-1935-00-00);

St. Paul Visiting St. Peter in Prison, by Filippino Lippi, Brancacci Chapel, Cappella dei Brancacci, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

ESCALERA PRINCIPAL-MURALES DE LA HISTORIA DE MEXICO - FOTO AÑOS 90. Author: DIEGO RIVERA. Location: PALACIO NACIONAL. MEXICO CITY. CIUDAD DE MEXICO.

SALA ARTILLERIA DE INDIAS - PINTURA MURAL. Author: Farrés. Location: ALCAZAR-INTERIOR. SEGOVIA. SPAIN.

Baptism of Władysław Warneńczyk, 18 February 1425. Matejko, Jan (1838-1893), painter

Miniature depicting urban Mediaeval life. The miniature depicts the interior of a tavern in Genoa. The upper section shows guests carousing whilst in the lower section are barrels or red and white wine. Dated 14th Century

The Crucifixion. Panel in the central part of the predella. 1457-1405. By Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). Soldiers playing dice Jesus' tunic. High altar of San Zeno, Verona, Italy. Louvre Museum. Paris. France. Renaissance.

The Disciples Having Left Their Hiding Place Watch from Afar in Agony (Les disciples ayant quitté leur retraite assistent de loin au supplice) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Disciples Having Left Their Hiding Place Watch from Afar in Agony (Les disciples ayant quitté leur retraite assistent de loin au supplice), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 5 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. (12.9 x 22.2 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Parodia del trovatore / Grossi. | Library of Congress

The child Dionysus, Leukothea and the Nymphs of Nysa, by Unknown artist, 1st Century, mural. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme: Cubicolo B parete di fondo dell'alcova. Whole artwork. Dionysus child/boy Leukothea nymphs doorway/portal Nysa Nereid mother morning

Doctor Syntax arrives at the Palais Royal in Paris. Post Royal coach laden with luggage on the roof, man bringing box to the post office, post boy in large wooden boots, bookshop and barber or peruquier behind. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Charles Williams from Doctor Syntax in Paris; or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, W. Wright, London, 1820.

The Hussite King George of Podebrady (The cycle The Slav Epic) by Mucha, Alfons Marie (1860-1939) / City Gallery Prague / 1923 / Czechia / Tempera and Oil on canvas / History / 405x610 / Art Nouveau

Benito Mercadé y Fábregas / 'Last moments of Brother Charles Climaque'. 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Stage design for the opera Salammbô by Modest Mussorgsky, Korovin, Konstantin Alexeyevich (1861-1939)

The Effects of Good Government in the City, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1339, 14th Century, fresco. Italy: Tuscany: Siena: Palazzo Pubblico: Sala della Pace. Detail. Bank of Exchange blue red hat books

Gouache painting by Franz Wacik showing Prince Eugen in the port of Trieste, part of a series on his life.

Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516). Dutch painter. Table of the Seven Deadly Sins. Detail of the Envy. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Italy - Lazio Region - Sabaudia - Church of the Assumption - Mosaic work by Ferruccio Ferrazzi

Leroy, Paul Alexandre Alfred (1860-1942) Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa 1884 251x383 Oil on canvas French of 19th cen. France Bible

A eunuch before the door of the harem by Vereshchagin, Vasili Vasilyevich (1842-1904) / Regional M. Vrubel Art Museum, Omsk / Russian Painting of 19th cen. / / Russia / Oil on canvas / Genre / 93x47

A Scene in an Historical Play Exhibited on the Chinese Stage, 1795, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, sheet: 23.6 × 35 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.), mount: 30.4 × 42.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 9/16 in.), William Alexander (artist) British, 1767 - 1816

Set design by Benois, for the Russian Ballet 'Petrushka' 1910-11. The Ballet was composed by Igor Stravinsky. Michel Fokine choreographed the ballet; Benois designed the sets and costumes. Petrushka was first performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on 13 June 1911. Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (1870 - 1960) was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist, and founding member of Mir iskusstva (World of Art), an art movement and magazine.

Kostüme aus der Antike, dem Mittelalter oder dem Mittelalter, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Poseliane Voronezhskoi gubernii. Velikorossiiane, malorossiiane, nemtsy, kolonisty.. Timm, Vasili Fëdorovich, 1820-1895. Prints. 1851 - 1862. Rare Book Division. Russia , Social life and customs, Russia , History, Arts, Russian

The Feast in the House of Levi, Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588)

Ecce Hommo (1650-1659), painting made by Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705), Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 17th-century original, exact date unknown .

Italian Renaissance Torrechiara Castle. Benedetto Bembo 1423 - 1489. Gold Room - Camera Peregrina Aurea; 1462. cycle of frescoes.

Jordi Arenas / "La primera pascua" (The first Easter) (detail), 1960, fresco painting, chapel of the sacrament, church of Santa Anna de Mataró. Author: JORDI ARENAS I CLAVELL.

Illustration by Dinet from 'Mirages' Scenes of Arab life. 1906. Mirages, Scénes De La Vie Arab was illustrated by Etienne Dinet with commentary by Silman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Nasreddine Dinet was born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet; (1861 - 1929) was a French orientalist painter and was one of the founders of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes. He became so enchanted with North Africa (Algeria) and its culture, that he converted to Islam, and was proficient in Arabic.

Sketch for the town hall of the 10th arrondissement of Paris: the yesterday Adrien Moreau-N�ret (1860-1944). Hearing. Sketch for the town hall of the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Oil on canvas, 1906.

Medieval university. Engraving, 19th century.

Vow of the Pheasant (Philip the Good and Isabella at the Feast of the Pheasant in Lille in 1454), anonymous (copy after), c. 1500 - c. 1599 painting 'Le Voeu du Faisan', the banquet or party of the pheasant. Philip de Goede and Isabella van Bourbon present on a banquet given on 17 February 1454 by Madame d'Estampes in the De Rihour castle on the occasion of their solemn oath to make a crusade to recapture the Holy Land. On the right a set table, two musicians in the background. The guests wear burning torches. Late copy to an unknown original France canvas. oil paint (paint) banquet of elegant company. dancing Lille

Composition studies for Penn’s Treaty with the Indians,” The Apotheosis of Pennsylvania,” and The Reading of the Declaration of Independence” murals in the House Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

A Ball in the Winter Palace under Nicholas I by Russian master / State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg/ 1830s/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 56,5x78,2/ Genre

The Second Denial of Peter James Tissot (1836-1902/French)

Jan Van Beers (1852-1927). "The funeral of Charles Le Bon, count of Flanders, celebrated in Bruges on April 22, 1127" (detail), oil on canvas, 1876. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Known, bure, knight, detail, crowd, funeral, medieval, mass, monk, medium-aged, religious office, religious procession, oil on canvas

The Story of Griselda. Part III: Reunion 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

Paper Construction, Garden Scene with Dancers, to be Used as the Set for a Miniature Theater

Dendera, Watercolour. David Roberts (1796-1864) Scottish artist and orientalist. View across the temple complex, Egypt.

Jesus Bearing the Cross (Jésus chargé de la Croix) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). , 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 6 7/8 x 9 9/16 in. (17.5 x 24.3 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Mural with inscription of the former Cistercian abbey, interior view, Romanesque, painting, arts and crafts, UNESCO, monastery, Maulbronn, Kraichgau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

S.S. Lurline Matson Lines. 1957. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division

Scene Table-Top: Scene from play ..

St. Gregory And The British Captives Blake, William(1757-1827 British) Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

Stage Design by Konstantin Alexeyevich Korovin, Coal, tempera and gold on cardboard, 1903, 1861-1939, Russia, Moscow , State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, 35, 5x17, 7

Painting on wall in smoking room, House of Alexander Polovtsev, Museum of Applied Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

An Audience in Athens During Agamemnon by Aeschylus, 1884. By Sir William Blake Richmond

"La Conquista de México" -- panel 10. Date/Period: Last quarter XVII century. Painting. Height: 1,000 mm (39.37 in); Width: 520 mm (20.47 in). Author: Miguel GONZALES.

A 'harem' is not a bordello, seraglio or brothel, but refers to the women's quarters, usually in a polygynous household, which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and is typically associated in the Western world with the Ottoman Empire. Female seclusion in Islam is emphasized to the extent that any unlawful breaking into that privacy is haram ie, 'forbidden'. A Muslim harem does not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has sexual relations (wives and concubines), but also their young offspring, other female relatives or odalisques, which are the concubines' servants. The harem may either be a palatial complex, as in Romantic tales, in which case it includes staff (women and eunuchs), or simply their quarters, in the Ottoman tradition separated from the men's selamlik. A hammam is a common bath house.

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Composition studies for Penns Treaty with the Indians, The Apotheosis of Pennsylvania, and The Reading of the Declaration of Independence murals in the House Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg, Graphite, watercolor, gouache, 19 × 51.6 cm (7 1/2 × 20 5/16 in.), Made in United States, American, 19th century, Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors

Iskander Bey and his Servant, 1848, painting by John Frederick Lewis, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century original .

Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon, 1868-69 Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Oil Painting, Plasterwork, Ancient Greece, Polychromy

Mothers With Children by Martha Walter, oil on wood, 1925, (1875-1976), USA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, David David Gallery

The False Witnesses (Les faux témoins) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The False Witnesses (Les faux témoins), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 x 11 13/16 in. (20.3 x 30 cm). Brought before a tribunal presided over by the chief priest Caiaphas, Jesus, bound in chains but standing with dignified calm, hears many give testimony against him, though none can agree on a charge or crime, much to the frustration of the priests. Tissot visually conveys the accumulation of these accusations by filling the gallery at left with a frenzied crowd, each person raising his hand to be heard by the judges, who occupy an unseen but elevated dais at the top of the stairs to the right. European Art 1886-1894

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Explorer and navigator genoese. Egg of Columbus. Engraving by R. Jerigre after a painting of Leon Reisseinstein. The Iberian Illustration, 1885. Colored.

Watercolour - On the way to sell baskets and brooms

Martha (Marthe) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Martha (Marthe), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 9/16 x 4 7/16 in. (21.7 x 11.3 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Delft procession of 1873 (eighth plate), 1873 print Eighth record with the numbers 104-123, the names of the students in pencil underneath. Part of the series of ten consecutive plates of the historic costumed procession by the students of the Polytechnische Hogeschool van Delft on July 8, 1873. The parade depicts the entry of Karel van Egmond in Arnhem in 1492. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Amsterdampublisher: Delft paper students' pageant. costumes used in pageants Delft

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow History

The Daughters of Jerusalem (Les filles de Jérusalem) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Daughters of Jerusalem (Les filles de Jérusalem), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 5/8 x 6 1/16 in. (21.9 x 15.4 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Atlas Major Joan Blaeu (1596-1673/ Dutch) Manuscript Illumination Newberry Library, Chicago

Ferdinand of Spain receives nobles and lords in Guernica

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