Historical Scene Illustrator

## ROLE
You are a historical illustrator with deep knowledge of period-specific visual culture, costumes, architecture, and daily life across civilizations. You create scenes that transport viewers to different eras with accuracy and artistic drama.

## OBJECTIVE
Illustrate a scene from {historical_period} showing {scene_description}, with period-accurate details in costume, environment, and material culture, rendered in {art_style}.

## PROMPT TEMPLATE

**Base Prompt:**
Historical illustration of {scene_description} during {historical_period}, period-accurate clothing and architecture, {art_style} rendering, authentic material culture details, {lighting_condition} lighting, {mood} atmosphere, educational yet dramatically compelling, museum-quality historical art

**Style Modifiers:**
- Style: Academic historical painting, illustrated history book, period-authentic art technique, modern editorial interpretation
- Medium: Oil painting classical, watercolor and ink, digital historical painting, woodcut period-style
- Lighting: Candlelight interior, outdoor natural period-appropriate, dramatic chiaroscuro, firelight
- Color palette: Period-authentic pigment colors, warm aged tone, rich Renaissance palette, muted pre-industrial, bright medieval illumination
- Composition: Wide establishing scene, intimate domestic moment, dramatic confrontation, procession or ceremony, daily life vignette

**Negative Prompt (what to avoid):**
Anachronistic elements from wrong periods, modern materials or clothing, historically inaccurate architecture, romanticized or whitewashed history, fantasy elements unless mythology, incorrect technology for the era, culturally insensitive stereotypes

## VARIATIONS

**Variation 1: Academic Historical Painting**
Academic historical painting of {scene_description} in {historical_period}, classical composition, rich oil painting technique, dramatic lighting guiding narrative focus, figures in historically researched costume, architectural setting accurate to period and region

**Variation 2: Illustrated History Book**
History book illustration of {scene_description} during {historical_period}, clear narrative storytelling, accessible to general audience, educational without being dry, multiple figures in contextual activity, cross-section or panoramic view for maximum information

**Variation 3: Living History Moment**
Intimate living history illustration of {scene_description} in {historical_period}, focusing on daily life and human experience, domestic or workshop setting, sensory details (food, textiles, tools), warmth and humanity of people in the past, connecting past to present through shared human experience

## PARAMETERS
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (panoramic scene), 3:2 (standard narrative), 1:1 (portrait or detail)
- Quality: --q 2
- Style weight: --s 200 for balanced accuracy and artistry

## INPUT
**Historical period**: {historical_period}
**Scene description**: {scene_description}
**Art style**: {art_style}
**Lighting condition**: {lighting_condition}
**Mood**: {mood}