They don’t make paintings like “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” anymore. The slow, ruminative medium of oil paint on canvas has pretty much had it as the sharpest system for the memorable delivery ...

Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) has been celebrated as an emblem of the French Republic for almost 200 years. The dynamic scene of Liberty leading revolutionaries into battle ...

“The genius of Delacroix is not debatable, it is not demonstrable, it is something one feels,” wrote the French writer Alexandre Dumas. The Louvre is currently hosting a once-in-a-generation tribute ...

There's perhaps no more stirring an example of political art than Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Measuring roughly 8½ by 10½ feet, the painting was completed in 1830 to ...

Eugène Delacroix “Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother” (1830) (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) This show might have felt like a blip on your radar during the packed Fall 2018 art ...

In the final days of the Paris Commune of 1871, a radical experiment in self-governance and insurrection that started after the nation’s humiliating military loss to Prussia, the Communards realized ...

Michel Delacroix is a French artist known for his naïve style, which captures the charm and simplicity of street scenes in Paris and other nearby areas of France. Born in 1933 in Paris, France, he ...

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Few artists have delighted and scandalised the public as much as Eugène Delacroix. The greatest French painter of the first half of the 19th century, who is the subject of a landmark retrospective at ...