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This was the first of his published works. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1958 under the supervision of Anthony Blunt, and this thesis was to be the basis of his first book, Delacroix, published in 1963—the centenary of the artist's death. By this time he had been made a lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, Toronto, where he was ...
The Private Life of a Masterpiece is a BBC arts documentary series which tells the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing on 8 December 2001 and ending on 25 December 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 8 December 2001 to 17 April 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode ...
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə k r w ɑː, ˌ d ɛ l ə ˈ k r w ɑː / DEL-ə-krwah, - KRWAH; [1] French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Head of an Old Greek Woman is a painting completed in 1824 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. [1] It is a study for his large oil painting The Massacre at Chios ("Scène des massacres de Scio"); a depiction of the Chios massacre which occurred in 1821 during the Greek War of Independence .
The episode on a maiolica plate, Urbino, 16th century. The Justice of Trajan by Eugène Delacroix, 1840.. The Justice of Trajan is a legendary episode in the life of Roman Emperor Trajan, based upon Dio Cassius' account (Epitome of Book LXVIII, chapter 10): "He did not, however, as might have been expected of a warlike man, pay any less attention to the civil administration nor did he dispense ...
The couple took care of Eugène Delacroix in 1814 after the death of their mother. [5] Delacroix met his first love at Henriette's house. His portrait of the young Englishwoman Elisabeth Salter was painted in 1817. [13] He became attached to his nephew, Charles, who was just five years younger than him. [1]
The Prisoner of Chillon by Eugène Delacroix, 1834. The poem describes the trials of a lone survivor of a family who have been martyred. The character's father was burnt at the stake, and out of six brothers, two fell at the battlefield while one was burnt to death.
For Delacroix, colors were the most important ingredients for his paintings. Because of this artistic taste and belief, he did not have the patience to create facsimiles of classical statues. He revered Peter Paul Rubens and the Venetians. He chose the use of colorful hues and exotic themes for his paintings, drawing inspiration from other ...