1. The genre includes
depictions of moments in
religious narratives, as
well as narrative scenes
from mythology, and also
allegorical scenes

2. Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937, Oil on canvas, 349 cm
× 776 cm, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Death of Marat, Jacques
Louis David, 1793
The Morning of
the Execution of the Streltsy,
V.Surikov, 1881,Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of
Homer,Rembrandt, 1653,Oil painting,
Baroque painting, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Detail of, The Third of May 1808,
Goya, 1814, modern art, Prado,
Madrid

3. La Primavera,Botticell, 1482, Tempera on
poplar panel, Allegorical history painting, Early
Renaissance, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The Last Supper, Leonardo da
Vinci, 1458, Tempera and oil on
gesso, History Painting,
Renaissance art, Santa Maria
delle Grazie, Milan.
The Ecumenical Council , Salvador Dalí,
1960, Oil on canvas, 299.7 cm × 254 cm,
Salvador Dalí Museum
The Descent from the
Cross, Rubens,1612,
Cathedral of Our Lady
The Judgment of King Solomon,Nikolai
Ge , 1854, Academicism, religious
painting ,oil on canvas,The Museum of
Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine

4. The Apotheosis of War, Vasily
Vereshchagin , 1871
Russian troops taking Samarkand in 1868, Nikolay
Karazin, 1888
The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar,
21 October 1805, Denis Dighton,1825
The Battle of Alexander,
Altdorfer Albrecht
Saporoschzen writing a letter to the
Turkish Sultan,Ilja Repin, 40x24 inches,
war battle