RMN– Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado NEW YORK, NY – It’s impossible to understand the rise of modern art without reckoning with Eugene Delacroix, one of the most important ...

Eugène Delacroix was the leading artist of the French Romantic period, a master of colour whose painting and writing influenced Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Cezanne and many others.

I’m an art historian and professor who studies ... Years later, the journalist Phillipe Burty reported in his magazine article “Eugene Delacroix a Algers” that Delacroix had received ...

An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the sartorial choices of artists revealed about their place in society.

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. In his essay “The life and work of Eugène Delacroix” (1863) Baudelaire asks: “What role did he come into this world to play ...

“I may not have fought for my country but at least I shall have painted for her.” So said Eugène Delacroix of his most famous painting, Liberty Leading the People (1830). Except Delacroix ...

So this exhibition, with some 180 of his works on view and a focus on the artist’s later and lesser-known paintings, is a genuine event. Delacroix was born in 1798, into an age of political ...

The massive retrospective of Eugene Delacroix brings together 180 works from every stage of his career. It has been organized with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it will open ...

Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Before Manet, Monet, Renoir or Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix was the 19th century French painter challenging establishment notions of what ...

Delacroix (1798-1863) broached enmity between Muslims and Christians in two of his earliest and best known paintings: The Massacre at Chios (1824) and Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826).