Yet the 120 pictures and over 220 drawings depicting traditional subjects, like the Pietà or Christ on the cross, initiate the style of modern religious art. Although Delacroix has been ...

Following an acclaimed exhibition of the great French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre ... on the wall to the left and a stirring “Christ on the Cross” (1835) on the wall ...

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 ...

PARIS — Not since 1963 has the Louvre mounted a major retrospective devoted to Eugène Delacroix ... produced religious paintings — of Christ on the cross and anecdotes from the life of ...

Of course Cezanne was only joking – he didn’t really think Delacroix was Jesus Christ – but this playful painting illuminates an important truth. Cezanne realised all this adulation was a ...

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If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) — is he not the most fascinating of all painters, past or present ...