History
Painting
The subject matter of this painters was to paint scenes from the
past.
Representative painters:
- Italian: Paolo
di Dono, known as Uccello;
- French: Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, known as Claude Le
Lorrain, Charles Le Brun, Jacques-Louis David, Théodore Géricault,
Antoine-Jean Gros, Piérre-Nolasque Bergeret, Eugène Delacroix,
Adrien Guignet, Evariste-Vital Luminais;
- Spanish: Diego Velázquez de Silva;
- American: Benjamin West, Jonathan Trumbull, George Caleb Bingham,
Johann Mongles Culverhouse, Winslow Homer, Thomas Hovenden, Horace
Pippin, Grant Wood, Mark Tansey;
- German-American: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze;
- English: William Dyce, Edward Armitage, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
Marcus Stone.