Tag: Eugène Delacroix
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10 Works, The Art of War, Franz Ritter von Stuck, Eugène Delacroix and Titian’s The Abduction of Alma, with footnotes
As Alma walks through the market she senses that she is being followed by group of people. She decides to get away but the faster she moved they faster they came. She finally decides to make a run for it… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix’s Collision of the Moorish Horsemen, with footnotes #98
“During their military exercises, which consist of riding their horses at full-speed and stopping them suddenly after firing a shot, it often happens that the horses carry away their riders and fight each other when they collide.” Delacroix uses fluid brush work to capture the color and movement of an Arab Fantasia, or ceremonial cavalry…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix’s The Battle of Taillebourg , with footnotes
The Battle of Taillebourg, a major medieval battle fought in July 1242, was the decisive engagement of the Saintonge War. It pitted a French Capetian army under the command of King Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, and his younger brother Alphonse of Poitiers, against forces led by King Henry III of England, his brother…
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02 Paintings, The art of War, Eugène Delacroixand Patrick Caulfield ‘s Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, with footnotes
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi is an 1826 oil painting by French painter Eugène Delacroix, and now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. This painting was inspired by the Third Siege of Missolonghi by the Ottoman forces in 1826… Please follow link for full post
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28 Works, Today, April 26th. is artist Eugène Delacroix’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #115
Liberty Leading the People commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman of the people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads a varied group of people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution — the tricolour,…
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Eugène Delacroix, Collision of Arab Horsemen 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 37
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the…
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