Resumen de Malerei und Drama: Über das Historiengemälde
The writer discusses history painting, drama, and the notion of narrative scenes. He notes that the age-old interpretation of painting as a story-telling art (the source of the currently fashionable notion of narrative scenes in painting) has involved playing around with the basic categories of the epic and the dramatic, and that the term “scene,” which derives from a Greek word for a stage, has nothing to do with narrative. He questions the idea that the great painters once set themselves the task of retelling often-told stories.
