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history painting, the painting of scenes from classical and Christian history and mythology. It was taught in the academies of art academies of art, official organizations of established artists. Lorenzo de' Medici's informal circle of great artists and thinkers was modeled on similar groups formed in classical Greece. ..... Click the link for more information. , from the Renaissance to the 19th cent., as the highest form of art in an hierarchical grouping that ranked still-life painting lowest on the list. Included in the category were scenes from contemporary history, such as Velázquez's Surrender at Breda, and commemorative works and apotheoses, such as Rubens's Life of Marie de' Medici. Scenes from antiquity dominated 18th-century painting, and modern subjects were exalted by treating them in classical terms. A modern work cited as falling within the history-painting tradition is Picasso's Guernica. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Like other German painters late in the cold war (Markus Lupertz, Georg Baselitz, and, later, Werner Buttner and Albert Oehlen), Immendorff was drawn to history painting, which was decried at the time as hopelessly regressive. In rejecting the conservative subject matter of the traditionalist, formally trained painters of the day, the two artists made landscape the subject of their work rather than background for a history painting or religious allegory. The density and opacity of Marshall's history paintings and installations are brilliantly deconstructed by Terrie Sultan in her essay "This Is the Way We Live. |
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