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The Barque Of Dante
''The Barque of Dante'' (), also ''Dante and Virgil in Hell'' (''Dante et Virgile aux enfers''), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romantic movement, Romanticism. The painting loosely depicts events narrated in canto eight of Dante Alighieri, Dante's ''Inferno (Dante), Inferno''; a leaden, smoky mist and the blazing Dis (Divine Comedy), City of the Dead form the backdrop against which the poet Dante fearfully endures his crossing of the Styx, River Styx. As his barque ploughs through waters heaving with tormented souls, Dante is steadied by Virgil, the learned poet of Classical antiquity. Pictorially, the arrangement of a group of central, upright figures, and the rational arrangement of subsidiary figures in studied poses, all in horizontal Plane (geometry), planes, complies with the tenets of the cool and reflective Neo-Classicism that had dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism'', p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Colere
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne-Jean Delécluze
Etienne-Jean Delécluze () (26 February 1781 – 12 July 1863) was a French painter and critic. From 1797 on, he was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, as he describes in his biography of David. As one of his favorite pupils, he was invited to David's last meal in France before going to Brussels in 1816. From 1822 on, he worked as a critic for the ''Journal des débats''. His book ''Louis David, son école et son temps'' (Paris, 1857) was quite politically controversial, and he had to rewrite it in order to restore his reputation. He was a maternal uncle of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and in charge of Viollet-le-Duc's education for some time. Emmanuel
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Henriette De Verninac
Henriette de Verninac (1780–1827) was the daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory, and wife of the diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur. She is known as the subject of a portrait by Jacques-Louis David. Early years Henriette Delacroix was born in 1780. Her father was Charles-François Delacroix (or Lacroix), minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory. She was the second of four children. Her older brother Charles was a general during the First French Empire. Her second brother was Henri. Her youngest brother was the painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), born eighteen years after her. Marriage In 1798 Henriette married Raymond de Verninac-Saint-Maur (1762-1822). He was one of the three commissioners who had been delegated to settle the annexation of Avignon in 1791. Raymond de Verninac was Minister to Sweden from 1792 until 1793, when Louis XVI was executed and relations were broken off. From 1795-97 he was Minister to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delacroix Head
Delacroix is a French surname that derives from ''de la Croix'' ("of the Cross"). It may refer to: People * Caroline Delacroix (1883–1945), French-Romanian mistress of Leopold II of Belgium * Charles-François Delacroix (1741–1805), French ambassador to the Netherlands * Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French artist, leader of the French Romantic school * Gustave Delacroix de Ravignan (1795–1858), French Jesuit preacher and author * Hiroyuki Sakai from ''Iron Chef'', referred to as the ''Delacroix of French cuisine''. * Jean-François Delacroix (1753–1794), French revolutionary politician * Léon Delacroix (1867–1929), Belgian statesman * Michel Delacroix (painter) (born 1933), French painter * Michel Delacroix (politician), Belgian politician Fictional characters * Bruno Delacroix, character from the video game '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Voyage of Despair'' * Eduard Delacroix, character from the serial novel '' The Green Mile'' and its film adaptation * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Johnson (art Historian)
Professor Lee Frederick Johnson (7 September 1924 – 6 July 2006) was an art historian and specialist in the works of the French nineteenth-century painter Eugène Delacroix. Early life and scholarship Born in 1924 in London, Johnson emigrated to the US in 1940 and served with the US Army in the Pacific. Between 1952 and 1958 he was a student at the Courtauld Institute of Art. During this period, he fortuitously discovered four unattributed Delacroix decorative paintings in the town house of François-Joseph Talma in Paris.Camden New Journal, New Journal Enterprises, 40 Camden Road, London. Retrieved February 6, 200/ref> The Independent (London). Thursday, August 10, 2006. Retrieved February 6, 200/ref> Publications In 1954 Johnson wrote a five-page piece in ''The Burlington Magazine'' about the exhibitions in London and Dublin of Géricault's ''The Raft of the Medusa''.''The Burlington Magazine'', August 1954, "The 'Raft of the Medusa' in Great Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie De' Medici Cycle
The Marie de' Medici Cycle is a series of twenty-four paintings by Peter Paul Rubens commissioned by Marie de' Medici, widow of Henry IV of France, for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. Rubens received the commission in the autumn of 1621. After negotiating the terms of the contract in early 1622, the project was to be completed within two years, coinciding with the marriage of Marie's daughter, Henrietta Maria. Twenty-one of the paintings depict Marie's own struggles and triumphs in life. The remaining three are portraits of herself and her parents. The paintings now hang in the Louvre in Paris. Commission Much speculation exists on the exact circumstances under which Marie de' Medici decided to commission Rubens to paint "such a grandiose project, conceived in truly heroic proportions".Saward, p. 2. John Coolidge suggests the cycle may have even been commissioned to rival another famous series of Rubens, ''The Constantine Tapestries'', which he designed in his studio at the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Drops On The Damned
Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent). It is vital for all known forms of life, despite not providing food, energy or organic micronutrients. Its chemical formula, H2O, indicates that each of its molecules contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, connected by covalent bonds. The hydrogen atoms are attached to the oxygen atom at an angle of 104.45°. "Water" is also the name of the liquid state of H2O at standard temperature and pressure. A number of natural states of water exist. It forms precipitation in the form of rain and aerosols in the form of fog. Clouds consist of suspended droplets of water and ice, its solid state. When finely divided, crystalline ice may precipitate in the form of snow. The gaseous state of water is steam or water vapor. Water covers ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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