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Here you will find three works of art from the realism period which focus on war history. With these works, a studio or the artist at work is not what is thought about, but the event itself.
The Third of May, 1808 by Francisco Goya, pg 487 in The World of Art
Francisco Goya's painting, The Third of May, 1808, is a firing squad; "the execution of citizens of Madrid by Napoleon's invading army" (Sayre, 2005). The painting is lit by a lantern with a man in a white shirt, arms outstretched as though he is surrendering. In the dark background you can see a shadowy church. This concentration of light, coming from low down, gives the feeling of a scene on the stage; and the buildings against the dark sky remind me of a backcloth. And yet the picture is far from being theatrical in the sense of unreal, for at no point has Goya forced or over emphasized a gesture. Even the purposeful repetition of the soldiers' movement is not formalized, as it would have been in official decorative......

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