History paintings usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static subject, such as a portrait.

These paintings are now in the collection of the State of Washington History Museum.

It was decided that the opportunity should be seized to encourage the development of a national British school of History Painting, and that the paintings should be done in fresco.

However, there were few exceptions to this ( such as the aforementioned religious paintings he produced after he had converted to Protestantism ), most notable being the History of the Psyche that he did for his own house.

History painting was a less popular genre in American art during the 19th century, although Washington Crossing the Delaware, painted by the German-born Emanuel Leutze, is among the best-known American paintings.

The historical and military paintings of William B. T. Trego were widely published after his death ( according to Edwin A. Peeples, " There is probably not an American History book which doesn't have ( a ) Trego picture in it ").

Images of the mansion may be found in the book " Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings " by James W. Goode, and in several books in the collection of the Historical Society of Washington, D. C. A descendant ( Edward Sisson ) of the family that owned the mansion throughout its existence has posted a collection of paintings, drawings, photos, and histories of the mansion on-line in an " album " titled " Worthington House and Brentwood Mansion " on a Mac Web Gallery site.

He donated 214 of his father's paintings to the Natural History Museum.

Other paintings in this group include Unia Lubelska ( Union of Lublin ) ( 1869 ), Stefan Batory pod Pskowem ( Stefan Batory at the siege of Pskov ) ( 1872 ), Kopernik ( Nicolaus Copernicus ), Dzwon Zygmunta ( Sigismund's Bell ) ( 1874 ), Hołd Pruski ( Prussian Tribute ) ( 1882 ), Sobieski pod Wiedniem ( Jan III Sobieski at the Battle of Vienna ) ( 1883 ), Wernyhora, Kościuszko pod Racławicami ( Tadeusz Kościuszko at the battle of Racławice ) ( 1888 ), Dzieje Cywilizacji w Polsce ( History of civilization in Poland ) ( 1889 ) and Konstytucja 3 Maja ( Constitution of the 3 May ) ( 1891 ).

The church's Museum of Church History and Art, although characterizing it as the work of an amateur, exhibited Packer's wildlife paintings and sculptures in 2003 and 2004.

With the completion of the Shaanxi History Museum, it collected over 370, 000 precious relics which were unearthed in Shaanxi Province, including bronze wares, pottery figures, and mural paintings in Tang tombs.

The interior of the dome has allegorical paintings of " Commerce ", " Art " and " History " by George Murray.

City sights include the Fitte neighbourhood ( 1930 ), the monument to San Martín, the Palace of Justice, the Teatro Español Theatre ( 1908 ), the Provincial Art Museum ( with paintings by Raúl Soldi, Antonio Berni, Quinquela Martín and other important Argentine painters ) and the Provincial Natural History Museum.

All these paintings can be seen in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Gustav Mützel ( December 7, 1839 – October 29, 1893 ) was a German artist, famous for his mammal and bird paintings, including the illustrations for the second edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm's Thierleben and Richard Lydekker's The Royal Natural History.

In The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War ( 1960 ), Catton wrote the accompanying narrative to a book that included over 800 paintings and period photographs.

In the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the author Henry Fielding refers to paintings by William Hogarth in order to explain what some of his characters look like.

Irving's A History of New York gave Quidor the subjects for the four paintings in the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Dancing on the Battery ( c. 1860 ), Peter Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate ( 1864 ), Voyage of the Good Oloff up the Hudson ( 1866 ), and The Voyage from Communipaw to Hell Gate ( 1866 ).

In 1916, in the wake of the Central Powers ' invasion, the valuables of the National Bank of Romania, together with many other valuables ( the Romanian Treasure ) were sent to Moscow for safekeeping, but were never returned ( except for the Pietroasele treasure-now on display at the National Museum of Romanian History, the numismatic collection of the National Bank, some paintings and archives ).

In addition, the Centre of Culture and Art, Diexodos, which hosts cultural events and exhibitions as well as the Museum of History and Art is housed in a neo-classical building in Markos Botsaris Square and hosts a collection of paintings indicative of the struggle of Missolonghi, further boosting the city's cultural and artistic profile.

Other institutions under the auspices of the Haifa Museums iunclude the Mané Catz Museum dedicated to paintings from the School of Paris and Jewish artifacts ; and the City Museum of Haifan History, located in the Germany Colony.

* Titanic An Illustrated History, text by Don Lynch, paintings by Ken Marschall

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Some of Winterhalter's paintings of the Mexican monarchs still remain in their Mexico City palace, Chapultepec Castle, now the National Museum of History.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

Fragmentary remains of smaller individuals were found alongside " Sue ," the Tyrannosaurus mounted in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and a bonebed in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana contains at least three specimens of Daspletosaurus, preserved alongside several hadrosaurs.

The fortress at Montjuïc, most southerly point from which measurements were made when calculating the History of the metre # Meridional definition | meridional definition of the metre

The natural history collections were an integral part of the British Museum until their removal to the new British Museum of Natural History, now the Natural History Museum, in 1887.

However, David E. Fishman, professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, states that, whereas the heder and yeshiva, the organs of Jewish education, " were banned by virtue of the law separating church and school, and subjected to tough police and administrative actions ," circumcision was not proscribed by law or suppressed by executive measures.

Coming of age was dealt with in Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ), race relationships were a theme in American History X ( 1998 ), and the AIDs epidemic and discrimination were the focus of Philadelphia ( 1993 ).

The term esoteric first appeared in English in the 1701 History of Philosophy by Thomas Stanley, in his description of the mystery-school of Pythagoras ; the Pythagoreans were divided into " exoteric " ( under training ), and " esoteric " ( admitted into the " inner " circle ).

Abbot's studies were chiefly in Oriental languages and textual criticism of the New Testament, though his work as a bibliographer showed such results as the exhaustive list of writings ( 5300 in all ) on the doctrine of the future life, appended to W. R. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, as it has prevailed in all Nations and Ages ( 1862 ), and published separately in 1864.

However, given the right problem, the use of an appropriate 4GL can be spectacularly successful as was seen with MARK-IV and MAPPER ( see History Section, Santa Fe real-time tracking of their freight cars – the productivity gains were estimated to be 8 times over COBOL ).

As part of school work, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, He came second to Connolly in the Harrow History Prize, had his work praised by the school's external examiner, and earned scholarships to Wellington and Eton Colleges.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

His finds were displayed as an exhibit on the " Early History of Johore ", at the National Museum of Singapore, and several beads that he had discovered suggested that trade went on between the Roman Empire and the Malays, presumably, Gardner thought, via India.

The Histories, otherwise known as The Researches or The Inquiries, were divided by later Alexandrian editors into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the " Muse of History ", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.

History began early in the Levant, as compared to numerous other parts of the world ; some of the earliest civilizations were located nearby.

History painting was the dominant form of academic painting in the various national academies in the 18th century, and for most of the 19th ; in France artists such as Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin were among the leading figures.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England, during the Viking occupation: “ The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the ‘ thing ’ to hear legal argument.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

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Historically, the ideals of chivalry were popularized in medieval literature, especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (" History of the Kings of Britain "), written in the 1130s.

Maurice's History of Hindostan also describes aspects of Kashmir that were copied by Coleridge in preparation for hymns he intended to write.