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PARIS — Not since 1963 has the Louvre mounted a major retrospective devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the great painter of the Romantic age whose works the museum holds in almost obscene abundance.
Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the era he called "the century of unbelievable things" By Claire Black McCoy. Published September 29, 2018 1:00PM (EDT) -- ...
Eugene Delacroix's 1837 "Self-Portrait with Green Vest," ca. 1837, portrays the artist as a handsome and successful painter at the height of his powers.
Before Manet, Monet, Renoir or Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix was the 19th century French painter challenging establishment notions of what qualifies as great art.
He's one of the great figures in art history, Eugene Delacroix, fantastically gifted and prolific, a celebrity who dazzled and often divided the Parisian art world of the mid-19th century, ...
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) — is he not the most fascinating of all painters, past or present? Extraordinarily well connected, exquisitely socially poised, he was an intimate friend of Hector ...
Eugene Delacroix's "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi" is part of an incisive show at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ... Delacroix eulogized Byron’s poem in an 1824 entry in his journal: ...
In his brilliant first decade of painting, the French artist Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) captured many of his era’s most evocative themes: the rise of the dandy in bourgeois culture, the novel ...
Following an acclaimed exhibition of the great French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened, on Sept. 17, the first full presentation of ...
An exhibition of Eugène Delacroix’s drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, preparatory studies and copies reveals a painter dedicated to tradition and innovation.
Delacroix was also arguably the last great literary painter—working, as Baudelaire would recall after the painter’s death, in “a kind of furious rivalry with the written word.” ...
The Delacroix portrait is the first addition to the Fine Arts Museums’ collections Bell has made since her appointment in August. Kenneth Baker is The San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic.