Lecture 1, Introduction to History Painting
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/10/18
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For six centuries, history painting—pictures based on stories from myth, scripture, and ancient and modern history—was the most prestigious work a painter could do. Renaissance artists and writers laid down the definitions, goals, and rules. We outline these and look at many examples of how they changed as pictorial narrative evolved until its eclipse in the 19th century.
