Historical Paintings Zhang Shengwen, «The teaching of Buddha Sakyamuni» (Siddhārtha Gautama), ca. 1173-76 A.D. National Palace Museum, Taipei. Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik, «Socrates and Two Disciples» (scene), from « The most exquisite wisdom sayings and most beautiful speeches, al-Mubashshir manuscript», 1st half of 13th century. Topkapu Saray-Museum, Istambul. Jacques-Louis David, «The Death of Socrates», 1787. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Raphael, «The School of Athens», 1511. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. «Alexander Mosaic», ca. 120-100 B.C. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Charles Le Brun, «Entry of Alexander into Babylon», ca. 1664. Louvre, Paris. Charles Le Brun, «Alexander and Porus», 1673. Louvre, Paris. J.M.W. Turner, «Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps», 1812. Tate Gallery, London. Cesare Maccari, «Cicero Denounces Catiline», 1889, Maccari Hall, Rome. Vincenzo Camuccini, «The Death of Julius Caesar», 1806. National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples «Depiction of Cleopatra VII (of Ptolemaic Egypt) as Venus Genetrix, with her son Caesarion as a cupid», House of Marcus Fabius Rufus, Pompeii, ca. 46 B.C. «Roman Baker Terentius Neo and his Wife», 20-30 B.C (Pompeii). Naples National Archaeological Museum. Leonardo Da Vinci, «The Last Supper», 1490s. Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. «Crucifixion», from «Rabbula Gospels», 586. Medicea-Laurenziana Library, Florence. «Saint Matthew», from “Ebbo Gospels”, 9th century. Municipal Library, Épernay, France. Karl Bryullov, «The Last Day of Pompeii», 1833. State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Gu Kaizhi, «Wise and Benevolent Women» (detail). A 13th century Song copy of the 4th century original work. Palace Museum, Beijing. Raphael, «The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila», 1514. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. Sandro Botticelli, “St Augustine”, 1480. Ognissanti, Florence. Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire: Destruction”, 1836. New-York Historical Society. Rashid Al-Din, “The Mi’raj (also called the ‘Night Ride’) of Muhammed on Buraq”, “Jami’ al-Tawarikh”, Tabriz (Persia), 1307. Edinburgh University Library, Scotland. Sultan Muhammad, “The ascent of Muhammad to Heaven (Mi’rāj)”, 1539-43 (Persian). British Library, London. “Bayeaux Tapestry” (detail), Men staring at Halley’s Comet, 11th Century, Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, France. Detail of a medieval miniature of the Siege of Antioch from Sébastien Mamerot’s “Les Passages d’Outremer”, ca. 1474. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Aretino Spinello, “Pope Alexander III Receives an Ambassador”, 1407. Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Liu Songnian, “Four Generals of Zhongxing”, 1214. (Southern Song Dynasty, Imperial Academy of Painting in Hangzhou). Matthew Paris, “Henry III’s Elephant”, ca. 1235–1259. “Chronica Maiora”, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Maqamat of al-Hariri, “Abû Zayd preaches in the mosque of Samarkand”, ca. 1300. (Syrian manuscript). British Museum, London. Domenico di Michelino, “Dante and the Three Kingdoms” (detail), 1465. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence. Lippo Vanni, “Victory of the Sienese Troops at Val di Chiana in 1363”, 1364. Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Paolo Uccello, “Niccolò da Tolentino Leads the Florentine Troops”, 1450s. National Gallery, London. Jan van Eyck, “The Arnolfini Portrait”, 1434. National Gallery, London. “Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace” (detail of the “Illustrated Tale of the Heiji Civil War”), late 13th Century, Japan. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “Joan of Arc”, ca. 1450-1500, Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris. Dióscoro Puebla, “First Disembarkation of Christopher Columbus on America”, 1862. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Victor Meirelles. “First Mass in Brasil”, 1861. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro. Farrukh Beg, “Babur Receives a Courtier”, 1589. Smithsonian Freer Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. Fethullah Çelebi Arifi and/or Matrakçı Nasuh and/or other painters at the court of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, “Ottoman Janissaries and the defending Knights of St. John, Siege of Rhodes (1522)”, 1558. “Süleymanname”, Topkapi Library Istambul. Jan Matejko, “Stańczyk” / “Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk”, 1862. National Museum, Warsaw. Hans Holbein the Younger, “Portrait of Sir Thomas More”, 1527. Frick Collection, New York. Lucas Cranach the Elder, “Martin Luther”, 1529. St. Anne’s Church, Augsburg. Paul Delaroche, “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey”, 1833. National Gallery, London. Diego Rivera, “The Market of Tlatelolco”, 1929-35. National Palace, Mexico D.F. Diego Rivera, “The History of Mexico”, West (Main) Wall, 1930. National Palace, Mexico City. Ala ad-Din Mansur-Shirazi, “Ottoman astronomers at work around Taqī al-Dīn at the Istanbul Observatory”, ca. 1574-95. Istanbul University Library. Kano Naizen, “Barbarians from the South”, ca. 1593-1600. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. (Depicts the arrival in Japan of a Western ship). “A Noble Lady”, (Mughal dynasty, India). 17th century. Smithsonian Freer Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. Peter Paul Rubens, “The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseille”, ca. 1622-25. Louvre, Paris. Diego Velázquez, “The Surrender of Breda”, 1635. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Rembrandt, “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp”, 1632. Mauritshuis, The Hague. Rembrandt, “The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburgh, known as the ‘Night Watch’”, 1642. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Diego Velázquez, “Las Meninas”, 1656. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Benjamin West, “The Death of General Wolfe”, 1770. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Adolph Menzel, “Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci”, 1852. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Emanuel Leutze, “Washington Crossing the Delaware”, 1851. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. J. M. W. Turner, “The Slave Ship” / “Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhoon coming on”, 1840. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jacques-Louis David, “The Death of Marat”, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Francisco Goya, “Charles IV of Spain and His Family”, 1801. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Jacques-Louis David, “Napoleon Crossing the Alps”, 1801. Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin. Jacques-Louis David, “The Coronation of Napoleon”, 1807. Louvre, Paris. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne”, 1806. Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Friedrich Georg Weitsch, “Alexander von Humboldt”, 1806. Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Francisco Goya, “The Second of May 1808” / “The Charge of the Mamelukes”, 1814. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Francisco Goya, “The Third of May 1808”, 1814. Museo del Prado, Madrid. David Wilkie, “The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch”, 1816. Apsley House, London. Théodore Géricault, “The Raft of the Medusa”, 1819. Louvre, Paris. Eugène Delacroix, “The Massacre at Chios”, 1824. Louvre, Paris. Eugène Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People”, 1830. Louvre, Paris. Salvador Dalí, “Battle of Tetuan (Homage to Mariano Fortuny)”, 1962. Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima (Japan). Édouard Manet, “The Execution of Emperor Maximilian”, 1869. Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany. Anton von Werner, “The proclamation of the German Empire”, 1885. Bismarck-Museum, Holstein, Germany. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge”, 1892. MoMA, New York. Paul Nash, “Spring in the Trenches”, 1918. Imperial War Museum, London. Otto Dix, “Flanders”, 1936. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Marc Chagall, “The Revolution”, 1937. Private colection. Boris Kustodiev, The Bolshevik, 1920. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Grekov Trubachi, “Trumpeters of 1st Cavalry”, 1934. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Antonio Berni, “Manifestation”, 1934. MALBA, Buenos Aires. Pablo Picasso, “Guernica”, 1937. Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Frida Kahlo, “Self Portrait with Stalin”, 1954. Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico. Tang Xiaohe, “Strive Forward in Wind and Tides”, 1971. Private Collection. Andy Warhol, “Mao F. & S. II.93” (edition 50), 1972. Fernando Botero, “The Death of Pablo Escobar”, 1999. Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning (Denmark) Copyright ©: These photographs of paintings are shown in small size and with strictly educational (non-commercial) purposes. The rights to use or reproduce the photographs of these paintings belong to their authors or to the holders of those rights.