Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Top historical art main subjects

This is an overview of the top historical art main subjects (main subject (P921) by number of paintings with genre (P136) set to history painting (Q742333)) of the sum of all paintings. This is a subset of Top main subjects. See also Top historical art depicts.

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WDQS | PetScan | TABernacle | Find images | Recent changes | Query: SELECT ?item (CONCAT("[[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Main subject/",?name, "|list]]") AS ?listlink) (COUNT(?item) as ?count) WHERE { ?painting wdt:P31 wd:Q3305213 . ?painting wdt:P921 ?item . ?painting wdt:P136 wd:Q742333 . SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . ?item rdfs:label ?name . } } GROUP BY ?item ?name ?listlink HAVING (?count > 0) # Raise later on ORDER BY DESC(?count) LIMIT 300

image	Main subject	List	instance of	count
	suicide of Lucretia	list	suicide in fiction, legend or myth legend artistic theme	146
	death of Cleopatra	list	death	29
	Roman Charity	list	exemplum artistic theme legend breastfeeding humanism	27
	rape of Lucretia	list	rape in fiction, legend or myth legend artistic theme	22
	continence of Scipio	list	artistic theme narrative	15
	French Revolution of 1848	list	revolution	14
	July Revolution	list	revolution	13
	Storming of the Bastille	list	historical event	10
	Lucretia	list	human whose existence is disputed	7
	Story of Constantine	list	tapestry series	6
	Rape of the Sabine Women	list	artistic theme mythical event mythical war bride kidnapping	5
	Franco-Prussian War	list	war	5
	1910 Great Flood of Paris	list	flood	5
	Justice of Trajan	list	legend	5
	French Revolution	list	historical event revolution	4
	Louis XVI of France	list	human	4
	coronation of George V and Mary	list	coronation of the British monarch	4
	Antonio I Moncada	list	human	4
	Paris Commune	list	siege social experiment insurgency organization group action	4
	Battle of the Saintes	list	battle naval battle	3
	Roxana	list	human	3
	Cleopatra	list	human	3
	Francis I of France	list	human	3
	wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Princess Alexandra of Denmark	list	royal wedding	3
	Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor	list	human	3
	Washington's crossing of the Delaware River	list	military operation	2
	Battle of Trafalgar	list	naval battle	2
	coronation of Napoleon I	list	coronation	2
	Passage of Humaitá	list	naval battle	2
	Rio de Janeiro	list	municipality of Brazil big city megacity	2
	Independence of Brazil	list	independentism civic holiday	2
	Spanish Armada	list	armada	2
	Battle of Princeton	list	battle	2
	man	list		2
	Fête de la Fédération	list	ceremony	2
	Catholic League	list	organization	2
	Hôtel-Dieu de Paris	list	facility hospital	2
	Siege of Paris	list	siege battle	2
	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	list	human	2
	Foire Saint-Germain	list	specialist trade fair	2
	World War I	list	world war historical period	2
	Bastille	list	castle prison destroyed building or structure	2
	Romeo and Juliet	list	dramatic work	2
	Samson	list	human biblical figure	2
	Retour des cendres	list	print	2
	Henry Beaufort	list	human	2
	Battle of Ramillies	list	battle	2
	Battle of Malplaquet	list	battle	2
	Battle of Blenheim	list	battle	2
	coronation of George VI and Elizabeth	list	coronation of the British monarch	2
	Giuseppe Marco Fieschi	list	human	2
	Discovery of Brazil	list	discovery occurrence	2
	Mark Antony	list	human	2
	Gaius Mucius Scaevola	list	human legendary figure human whose existence is disputed	2
	baptism	list		2
	Diana and Actaeon	list	artistic theme episode in Greek mythology fictional duo	2
	Clement VII	list	human	2
	Marie de' Medici	list	human	2
	annexation of Alsace-Lorraine	list	annexation historical event	2
	Charles V	list	human	2
	organizational founder	list	position	2
	Dante Alighieri	list	human	2
	Horatia gens	list	gens	1
	Socrates	list	human	1
	Battle of Anghiari	list	battle	1
	Chios massacre	list	massacre	1
	Aristotle	list	human	1
	Princes in the Tower	list	sibling duo	1
	Judgment of Solomon	list	Bible story artistic theme	1
	Ophelia	list	theatrical character fictional human	1
	Napoleon	list	human	1
	Bertrand du Guesclin	list	human	1
	Floralia	list	holiday religious and cultural festive day	1
	The Coronation of Napoleon	list	painting	1
	Royal Company of the Philippines	list	colonial society	1
	Peace of Westphalia	list	peace treaty	1
	Treaty of Münster (October 1648)	list	treaty	1
	Joan of Arc	list	human	1
	Moses	list	human biblical figure	1
	Felipe Lopes Neto	list	human	1
	Arthur Napoleão dos Santos	list	human	1
	Joachim Lebreton	list	human	1
	Grandjean de Montigny	list	human	1
	motherhood	list	biological life cycle	1
	Messalina	list	human	1
	Bandeirante	list	occupation	1
	Pedro Weingärtner	list	human	1
	tarantella	list	musical form music genre type of dance	1
	Rome	list	border city abolished municipality in Italy tourist destination metropolis largest city college town big city commune of Italy	1
	Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies	list	human	1
	water carrier	list	historical profession	1
	Tiradentes	list	human	1
	whaling	list	industry	1
	Guanabara Bay	list	bay	1
	Royal Navy	list	navy	1
	Church of Saint Iphigenia and of Our Lady of the Rosary of Alto da Cruz	list	church building	1
	Casa dos Contos	list	house museum	1
	Battle of Riachuelo	list	naval battle historical event	1
	Hino da Independência	list	national anthem musical work/composition	1
	São Paulo Museum of Sacred Art	list	art museum	1
	Diogenes of Sinope	list	human	1
	Georgina de Albuquerque	list	human	1
	John Byng	list	human	1
	Estácio de Sá	list	human	1
	Vitellius	list	human	1
	Claudius	list	human	1
	Julius Caesar	list	human	1
	Edward VIII	list	human	1
	Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus	list	human human whose existence is disputed	1
	Erminia	list	fictional human literary character	1
	Harriet Acland	list	human	1
	Battle of Jena–Auerstedt	list	battle	1
	David	list	human biblical figure human	1
	assassination of Julius Caesar	list	political murder stabbing attack conspiracy assassination	1
	Agrippina with ashes of Germanicus	list	artistic theme	1
	woman	list		1
	William Tell	list	fictional human folklore character	1
	Masks and Faces	list	literary work	1
	Battle of Tours	list	battle	1
	Battle of Taillebourg	list	battle	1
	Peter Paul Rubens	list	human	1
	French campaign in Egypt and Syria	list	conflict military campaign	1
	abolitionism	list	social movement political movement	1
	Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies	list	French law	1
	The Apotheosis of Homer	list	artistic theme	1
	Danish Constituent Assembly	list	constituent assembly	1
	Day 5 Tale 8 of the Decameron	list	novella in the Decameron	1
	Massacre of the Innocents	list	Bible story artistic theme	1
	Cádiz Expedition	list	battle	1
	Heraclitus and Democritus	list	artistic theme	1
	Atanasio Girardot	list	human	1
	10 August insurrection	list	riot	1
	Pilgrimage to Mont Saint-Michel	list	romeria	1
	Régence	list	historical period	1
	Battle of Isly	list	battle	1
	Louis XVIII of France	list	human	1
	Opéra-Comique	list	opera company	1
	French Constitution of 1848	list	constitution	1
	Georges Darboy	list	human	1
	Panthéon	list	mausoleum church building	1
	Félix Faure	list	human	1
	Louis XV of France	list	human	1
	Pont de Neuilly	list	stone bridge metro bridge road–rail bridge arch bridge	1
	capital punishment	list	manner of death	1
	Salle du Palais-Royal	list	destroyed building or structure theatre building	1
	Church Saint-Jean-en-Grève	list	church building	1
	French Second Republic	list	historical country republic regime in France	1
	1848 French presidential election	list	presidential election in France	1
	Niobids	list	group of Greek mythical characters	1
	place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville - Esplanade de la Libération	list	square event venue	1
	Saint-Jacques Tower	list	tower bell chamber	1
	Lieutenance générale de Louis-Philippe d'Orléans	list		1
	Achilles on Skyros	list	episode in Greek mythology artistic theme	1
	Perseus and Andromeda	list	artistic theme myth fictional duo	1
	Temple in Jerusalem	list	temple destroyed building or structure holy place biblical concept	1
	Red Jacket	list	human	1
	Battle of Pharsalus	list	battle	1
	Four Days' Battle	list	naval battle	1
	Boston Massacre	list	massacre	1
	Anne Boleyn	list	human	1
	Wolf of Gubbio	list	narrative	1
	seduction of Helen	list	artistic theme episode in Greek mythology	1
	Cincinnatus	list	human	1
	Eve	list	human biblical figure mythical character protoplast	1
	Fall of man	list	myth artistic theme Bible story change cognition	1
	Pius VIII	list	human	1
	Conquest of Ceuta	list	battle	1
	Carl Berner	list	human	1
	Ugolino della Gherardesca	list	human	1
	Battle of the Boyne	list	battle	1
	William III of England	list	human	1
	Alexander taming Bucephalus	list	artistic theme	1
	Battle of Waterloo	list	battle	1
	Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany	list	human	1
	John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey	list	human	1
	Edgar of England	list	human	1
	Ælfthryth	list	human	1
	Francisco de Paula Camargo	list	human	1
	Veridiana da Silva Prado	list	human	1
	Stratonice of Syria	list	human	1
	Helena Augusta	list	human	1
	Life of Pompey	list	literary work	1
	Diana and Callisto	list	artistic theme myth fictional duo	1
	Belisarius	list	human	1
	flood	list		1
	Battle of Clavijo	list	legendary battle	1
	The tale of Aristotle and Phyllis	list	legend narrative motif	1
	Château de Chantilly	list	château	1
	Battle of Curtatone and Montanara	list	battle	1
	Moctezuma II	list	human	1
	Belgian Revolution	list	revolution	1
	Battle of Kallo	list	battle	1
	Jan Usmoshvets	list	human bogatyr	1
	Blanche I of Navarre	list	human	1
	blinding	list	punishment	1
	Siege of Ancona	list	siege	1
	Worshipful Company of Barbers	list	livery company	1
	death of James Cook	list	occurrence murder	1
	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham	list	human	1
	Hungarian Revolution of 1848	list	war of national liberation revolution	1
	Battle of Narva	list	battle	1
	candaulism	list		1
	Greek War of Independence	list	war of national liberation	1
	Vow of Louis XIII	list	vow rule	1
	martyrdom of Saint Sebastian	list	artistic theme martyrdom occurrence	1
	Battle of France	list	battle	1
	Italian Plague of 1629-1631	list	epidemic disease outbreak	1
	Bombardements de Paris et de sa banlieue durant la Première Guerre mondiale	list		1
	second cholera pandemic	list	pandemic cholera outbreak	1
	Procès des ministres de Charles X	list		1
	Hôtel de Ville, Paris	list	town hall	1
	Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique	list	theatre building destroyed building or structure	1
	Eric Phipps	list	human	1
	George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge	list	human	1
	Dreyfus affair	list	political scandal controversy	1
	Joseph Gallieni	list	human	1
	Exposition Universelle of 1889	list	world's fair	1
	Bazar de la Charité	list	architectural structure	1
	Ferdinand Foch	list	human	1
	Jean-Paul Marat	list	human	1
	Victor Bach	list	human	1
	Felice Orsini	list	human	1
	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris	list	tomb of the unknown soldier	1
	Assassination of Henry I, Duke of Guise	list		1
	Johanna Wattier	list	human	1
	Raid on the Medway	list	military raid naval battle	1
	works of mercy	list	Christian ethics artistic theme charity	1
	Chicken War	list	rokosz	1
	Battle of Somosierra	list	battle	1
	Phocion	list	human	1
	James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales	list	human	1
	Prince Maurice of Battenberg	list	human	1
	Robert Burns	list	human	1
	World War II	list	world war historical period	1
	Marcus Curtius	list	human whose existence is disputed	1
	Didrik Slagheck	list	human	1
	Chilon of Sparta	list	human	1
	James VI and I	list	human	1
	death of Dido	list	artistic theme	1
	Santos	list	municipality of Brazil big city	1
	São Vicente	list	municipality of Brazil big city	1
	Eleanor of Austria	list	human	1
	Undine	list	literary work	1
	Siege of La Rochelle	list	siege	1
	Waltharius	list	literary work	1
	Delhi Durbar	list	meeting	1
	Checkered House	list	commemorative plaque house	1
	visit	list		1
	Trojan War	list	mythical war military operation	1
	Battle of Bennington	list	battle	1
	Leopold V, Duke of Austria	list	human	1
	Siege of Acre	list	siege	1
	Pietro Aretino	list	human	1
	Jean Leperdit	list	human	1
	Treaty of Versailles	list	peace treaty multilateral treaty	1
	Combat of the Thirty	list	battle	1
	Treaty of Paris	list	peace treaty	1
	Phryne	list	human	1
	Louis Marie Turreau	list	human	1
	Tomyris	list	human	1
	Escape of Hugo Grotius	list	prison escape	1
	George III of Great Britain	list	human	1
	Battle of Nördlingen	list	battle	1
	Silver Jubilee of George V	list	silver jubilee	1
	Ovid	list	human	1
	Victoria	list	human	1
	charity	list	theological virtue Seven virtues artistic theme personification	1
	Venus and Adonis	list	artistic theme fictional couple episode in Greek mythology	1
	Elizabeth of Hungary	list	human	1
	Fall of Constantinople	list	siege battle conquest	1
	insanity	list	mental process mental disorder superseded scientific theory	1
	Amy Robsart	list	human	1
	South Sea Bubble	list	literary work	1
	Siege of Lucknow	list	siege	1
	John Knox	list	human	1
	Battle of Ourique	list	battle	1
	Mise of Amiens	list	treaty	1
	Battle of Lauffeld	list	battle	1
	House of Crotta	list	noble family	1
	Tullia Minor	list	human human whose existence is disputed	1
	Antonio Pérez	list	human	1
	Mona Lisa	list	painting	1
	Grote Markt	list	grand place	1
	capture of New Amsterdam	list	battle bloodless war	1
	Battle of Austerlitz	list	battle	1
	Domitian	list	human	1
	Thomas Chatterton	list	human	1
	Ponte Milvio	list	deck arch bridge road bridge stone bridge Roman bridge ancient Roman structure	1
	Sack of Rome, 1527	list	siege sack	1
	Battle of Aspern-Essling	list	battle	1
	Battle of Rocroi	list	battle	1
	Battle of Freiburg	list	battle	1
	Siege of Dunkirk	list	battle siege	1
	Battle of Nördlingen	list	battle	1
	Novella d'Andrea	list	human	1
	Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba	list	human	1
	Siege of Strasbourg	list	battle siege	1
	burial at sea	list	funeral geographic location	1
	Antony and Cleopatra	list	married couple	1
	Great Plague of Marseille	list	plague epidemic epidemic	1

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