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Eugene Delacroix

( 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix 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 Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 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 colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic.Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action. However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible."[5] Together with Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting, and one of the few who was ever photographed.

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Artworks on platform: 30
Works collected: 6,446
Comments: 48
Featured on boards: 5

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The insult of Hamlet to Ophelia by Eugene Delacroix

The insult of Hamlet to Ophelia

Eugene Delacroix

Study of a woman for The Death of Sardanapalus by Eugene Delacroix

Study of a woman for The Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix

Jesus inthe Garden of Gethsemane by Eugene Delacroix

Jesus inthe Garden of Gethsemane

Eugene Delacroix

The Tribute Money by Eugene Delacroix

The Tribute Money

Eugene Delacroix

Six figures inspired by antiquity by Eugene Delacroix

Six figures inspired by antiquity

Eugene Delacroix

Ovid among the Scythians by Eugene Delacroix

Ovid among the Scythians

Eugene Delacroix

Portrait of Madame Simon by Eugene Delacroix

Portrait of Madame Simon

Eugene Delacroix

Louis-Auguste Schwiter by Eugene Delacroix

Louis-Auguste Schwiter

Eugene Delacroix

Christ on the Cross by Eugene Delacroix

Christ on the Cross

Eugene Delacroix

Abel Widmer by Eugene Delacroix

Abel Widmer

Eugene Delacroix

The Winter - Juno beseeches to destroy Eneas' Fleet by Eugene Delacroix

The Winter - Juno beseeches to destroy Eneas' Fleet

Eugene Delacroix

The Autumn - Baccus and Ariadne by Eugene Delacroix

The Autumn - Baccus and Ariadne

Eugene Delacroix

The Summer - Diana surprised by Actaeon by Eugene Delacroix

The Summer - Diana surprised by Actaeon

Eugene Delacroix

The Spring - Eurydice bitten by a serpent while picking flowers (Eurydice's death) by Eugene Delacroix

The Spring - Eurydice bitten by a serpent while picking flowers (Eurydice's death)

Eugene Delacroix

The Fanatics of Tangier by Eugene Delacroix

The Fanatics of Tangier

Eugene Delacroix

Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Turban by Eugene Delacroix

Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Turban

Eugene Delacroix

Dante and Virgil in Hell, also known as The Barque of Dante by Eugene Delacroix

Dante and Virgil in Hell, also known as The Barque of Dante

Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People

Eugene Delacroix

Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume by Eugene Delacroix

Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume

Eugene Delacroix

Erminia and the Shepherds by Eugene Delacroix

Erminia and the Shepherds

Eugene Delacroix

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Artworks on platform: 30
Works collected: 6,446
Comments: 48
Featured on boards: 5
Individual collectors: 4,154

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