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

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 ofthe 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

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

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

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