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Eugène Delacroix, Fotografie von Nadar, 1858. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix [ ø.ʒɛn də.la.kʁwa] (* 26. April 1798 in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Paris; † 13. August 1863 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler. Er gilt wegen der Lebhaftigkeit seiner Vorstellungskraft und wegen seines großzügigen Umgangs mit den Farben als Wegbereiter ...
Delacroix was one of the most innovative and successful painters of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as the last great history painter and his art is the ideal of Romanticism in the visual arts. Delacroix's career is marked by the paradox between the revolutionary and the conventional.
The Natchez. Eugène Delacroix French. 1823–24 and 1835. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 801. In 1823, Delacroix began to paint this scene from Chateaubriand’s widely read Romantic novel Atala, which narrates the fate of the Natchez people following attacks by French forces in the 1730s. After putting the canvas aside for about a ...
The Barque of Dante ( French: La Barque de Dante ), also Dante and Virgil in Hell ( Dante et Virgile aux enfers ), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romanticism. [1] The painting loosely depicts events ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Eugène Delacroix was a curious mixture of skepticism, politeness, dandyism, willpower, cleverness, despotism, and finally, a kind of special goodness and tenderness that always accompanies genius. Quote of Charles Baudelaire, as quoted in Delacroix (1997) by Jobert Barthélémy, p. 27.
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on ...
Throughout his career Delacroix was inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite author of the French Romantics. This painting depicts a scene from Ivanhoe: the Jewish heroine Rebecca, who had been confined in the castle of Front de Boeuf (seen in flames), is carried off by two enslaved Muslim warriors commanded by the covetous Christian knight Bois-Guilbert.
