History Painting
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History Painting
The depiction of several persons engaged in an important or memorable action, usually taken from a written source: a sense that stems from Leon Battista Alberti’s use of the word historia (Lat.: ‘story’) in 1435 to describe a narrative picture with many figures. The way in which understandings of this term developed in 15th- and 16th-century Italy is discussed in ISTORIA. As the term was understood in the academic doctrines of the 17th and 18th
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