At Delacroix' studio sale, held six months after his death in 1864, crowds and critics were astonished at both the abundance and the multi-disciplinary nature of the work on display, the life's vision of a man praised by Baudelaire for being the last great artist of the Renaissance period and the first of the Modern. But Delacroix himself was well aware of the position he wanted to occupy. Taking his cue from Rubens in both lifestyle and visual inventiveness, he took the order of classical composition and allied it to a universally appreciated symbolic and allegorical intent, producing from that marriage works of unmatched integrity and sensuality. From the spectacular Salon reception in 1824 to a work such as the major Scenes from the Chios Massacre (when the term Romantique was first applied to his style) through to the liberating and controversial carnality of The Agony in the Garden, Delacroix' genius in graphic design, in the liberation and reinvention of colour, and in the portrayal of bodies was never in doubt. His numerous sketchbooks attest to a personality committed to the most truthful results, in both his Goyaesque fantasias of horror, cruelty and sacrifice and in his huge historical canvases. Excessive, monumental, Byronic even, this Victor Hugo of the art world has proved profoundly influential, his technique studied by movements as diverse as Impressionism, Expressionism and the Abstract painters of mid-century. Leaving the self-indulgence of the Romantics far behind, the nobility of Delacroix' spirit will continue to speak to any and every age.
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"The last of the great artists of the Renaissance and the first modern"; thus Baudelaire on Delacroix. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Death of Sardanapalus, Salon du Roi, The Massacre of Chios, Palais Bourbon, The Barque of Dante, Women of Algiers, Van Gogh, Liberty Leading the People, The Entry of the Crusaders, George Sand, Lion Hunt, New York, Sistine Chapel, The Battle of Taillebourg, The Raft of the Medusa, Jacob Wrestling, Lake of Gennesaret, The Abduction of Rebecca, The Landing of Marie, The Mediterranean, Ruins of Missolonghi New!
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"The last of the great artists of the Renaissance and the first modern"; thus Baudelaire on Delacroix. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Death of Sardanapalus, Salon du Roi, The Massacre of Chios, Palais Bourbon, The Barque of Dante, Women of Algiers, Van Gogh, Liberty Leading the People, The Entry of the Crusaders, George Sand, Lion Hunt, New York, Sistine Chapel, The Battle of Taillebourg, The Raft of the Medusa, Jacob Wrestling, Lake of Gennesaret, The Abduction of Rebecca, The Landing of Marie, The Mediterranean, Ruins of Missolonghi New!
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- Claude Monet by National Gallery of Art on page 81
- Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) by Ludovico Ariosto on page 46
- Quentin Durward by Walter Scott on page 38
- Orlando Furioso: A Romantic Epic: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1) by Ludovico Ariosto on page 46
- The Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir Walter Scott on page 37
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