Narrative Art Telling a Story Masaccio’s Tribute Money

Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. In Other Words, Narrative art can express just one scene Or an ongoing, continuous narrattive.

N art is art in which the primary purpose is to tell a story. Story can be told in any medium Subjects range from genre, historical, to religious, etc. ***FOR YOUR ESSAY> DO NOT USE examples from Prehistory, Egypt, or Ancient Near East

One Scene, Goya’s Third of May, 1808

Multiple scenic, Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Column of Trajan ~Romans vs Dacians Multiple scenes Bayuex Tapestry ~Battle of Hastings Multiple scenes

Life and Death of the Buddha multi scene frieze from India Non European Narration Presentation of captives to Lord Chan Muwan, Mayan

Tale of Genji, Japan handscroll Lady Feng and The Bear, China, handscroll

Alfred Steiglitz’s The Steerage, 1907 Single scene photography Rodin’s Burghers of Calais, Single scene sculpture