battlepiece

British  

/ ˈbætəlˌpiːs /

noun

1. a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event

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Example Sentences

Though the battlepiece perished in the fire of 1577, another masterpiece of this time marks a climax in Titian’s brilliantly coloured and highly finished style.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March

Upon the next slab, a war chariot in full speed, passing over a dead lion, is represented; and on the sixth and last slab of the compartment is another battlepiece.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard

Robert Hamilton thought it was a battlepiece, but involuntarily he lifted his hat.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn