Eugène Delacroix, whose stormy, boundary-defying paintings captivated France in the 19th century, is one of history’s most significant artists. He was a leader of the Romantic Movement, and is ...
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 ...
“Delacroix,” a retrospective of the 19th century French painter Eugène Delacroix, is a blockbuster show running this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An ambitious Romantic, Delacroix is known ...
The way Delacroix used color in "Christ on the Sea of Galilee" (1853) inspired Vincent Van Gogh's use of color. The Dutch artist traveled to see the picture and wrote extensively about it to his ...
Organized by Ashley E. Dunn, an assistant curator in the Met’s department of drawings and prints, the show is drawn from a major gift to the museum of Delacroix works on paper. It comprises over 100 ...
With over 14,000 visitors, including 2,300 at the private view alone, hundreds of drawings sold, and nearly 500 museum curators from around the world in attendance, the 34th edition of the Salon du ...
The Lion Hunt. Photo: Eugène Delacroix/Franck Raux/RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY. Prepare to grapple with the cosmic grandiosity and optical hot-messes of that 19th-century French freak of ...
This month, on September 17, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open its Delacroix exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the French artist ever held in North America. As a ...
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. Photo: Musée ...
We are still only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the possible applications of artificial intelligence within the arts and humanities spaces. One organization leading the charge is the ...
“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 ...