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Delacroix's painting of the death of the Assyrian king Sardanapalus shows an emotionally stirring scene alive with colours, exotic costumes and tragic events. The Death of Sardanapalus depicts the besieged king watching impassively as guards carry out his orders to kill his servants, concubines and animals.
Scenes from the Massacre at Chios (French: Scènes des massacres de Scio) is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destruction visited on the Island of Chios in the Chios massacre.
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The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an 1827 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. [1] A smaller replica he made in 1844 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . [ 2 ]
The painting was inspired by a passage in Chateaubriand's Atala, which describes the family as the last members of the Natchez tribe after a massacre committed by the French. Delacroix referred to the figures in the painting as "savages", yet he also showed an admiration for the beauty of the cultural objects surrounding them, such as jewelry ...
Sunset (Delacroix) The Abduction of Rebecca; The Barque of Dante; The Battle of Nancy; The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242; The Bride of Abydos (Delacroix) The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan; The Death of Sardanapalus; The Entombment of Christ (Delacroix) The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero; The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief; The Lion Hunt ...
The painting depicts the immediate aftermath of the beheading of Faliero, which had taken place on the Scala dei Giganti (Giant's Staircase) of the Doge's Palace.The staircase, where Marino was also inaugurated as doge, is located within the interior of the building rather than facing out into St Mark's Square.
By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People, he was already the acknowledged leader of the Romantic school in French painting. [4] Delacroix, who was born as the Age of Enlightenment was giving way to the ideas and style of romanticism, rejected the emphasis on precise drawing that characterised the academic art of his time, and instead gave a new prominence to freely brushed colour.