Matthew C. Potter is Professor in Art and Design History at Northumbria University.

1 From the Abstract World of Ideas to the Truest Possible Representation of the Historical Event: An Introduction to Historical Art in the Long Nineteenth Century 2 Painting the 'vie privée of Our Forefathers': The Dutch and Flemish Schools as Models in the Formulation of New Visions of the Past in Early Nineteenth-Century Painting 3 Delécluze's Augustus And Cinna: Painting and Performing Rome at the End of the Napoleonic Empire 4 'The Exact Moment': Representing History in Delaroche's Assassination of the Duc de Guise 5 Spanish Painting: Recreating a Perceived 'Golden Age' 6 To Conjure Up the Spirits of the Past: German Romantic History Painting in America 7 The Relativity of History: The Pre-Raphaelite Rhetoric of Time 8 Beyond the 'Ten Complete Military Victories': Images of Battle in the Late-Qing Period 9 Jan Matejko and Polish Historical Painting 10 Representing the Finnish Past: Heritage and the World of the Ancient Finn 11 'A Lady So Long Deceased': The Death of the Historical Muse in Australian Painting, 1880-1911 12 History as You Go: Mobility, Photography, and the Visibility of the Past in Late Ottoman Print Space