biography
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Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène
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pronunciation:
[duhlakrwah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1798–1863)
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| biography:
| Painter, and leader of the Romantic movement, born in Charenton, NE France. He exhibited his ‘Dante and Virgil in Hell’ at the Paris Institute in 1822, following this with ‘The Massacre at Chios’ (1823, Louvre). These pictures, with their loose drawing and vivid colouring, aroused a storm of criticism. In his later work he moved even further away from traditional treatment in his canvases of historical and dramatic scenes, often violent or macabre in subject, such as ‘Liberty Guiding the People’ (1831, Louvre). |
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