Psychological, pedagogical, and didactic motives compel a teacher to try to familiarise children with historical subject matter first-hand. One of the most successful methods is working with historical sources, since they provide a genuine foundation for truly understanding historical facts and phenomena. Historical sources not only broaden the historical synthesis given in textbooks, but deepen it as well, making the material more understandable to students and history lessons more true to life. Among the different kinds of historical sources, pictorial material is the most usable. It can be used during any part and any kind of lessons. For this reason, the study of images should be an integral part of every lesson, taking us from the motif to an analysis, a clear notion, visual retention, historical understanding of the subject matter, and, lastly, to a logical conclusion. The importance of pictorial material is especially evident when its message is corroborated by written sources. Particularly important examples of pictorial historical sources for history lessons are works of painting, sculpture, and architecture, which tell us a great deal about the past – about the life and mentality of the time.