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1. Beginnings; Leon Battista Alberti Historical painting is the artistic reproduction of a significant event. This can generally include material from history, religion, literature, or mythology, or it can be an allegorical representation [11]. In the second book of his treatise on painting  Della pittura (1435/36), the founder of early modern art theory, Leon Battista Alberti, called historical painting the pinnacle of all art forms, more important than any colossal statue, and shaped the ideas of the next century thereby. His evaluati…

1. Definition Generic terms are abstract conceptual fictions, that is, concepts derived from particular phenomena, that serve to organize and communicate knowledge. In the organization of knowledge in science, genus (Latin  genus, Greek génos) is the collective term for the individuals belonging to a species by virtue of common characteristics. In zoology, botany and mineralogy, genus is further divided in systematic nomenclature into groups, families, orders, and classes. Derived from the Latin, the French genre was adopted into English in the 18th century to d…