Eugene Delacroix – the brightest representative of the French romantics – in 1832 traveled to Algeria and Morocco, which made an indelible impression on him. Hundreds of sketches, drawings and

The last decades of his life, Delacroix has dealt with the fulfillment of official orders. So, for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris, the artist created a series of ceiling paintings

When Delacroix was in Algiers, he visited the harem, which belonged to a former pirate. When he was introduced to the female half, where the captain’s women in the company

The painting was painted by the order of the young Duke of Orleans on the plot of Scott Walter “Quentin Durward”. In front of you is a huge stone hall

Portraits of Delacroix wrote always, although this genre was not the leading one in his work. Usually the portraits of the artist were ordered by his acquaintances. So, Prosper-Parfa Gubo,

Eugene painted with passion tigers, lions, horses, their fierce struggle for existence. He deliberately went to the zoo and fed tigers through meat. to see how the tiger tears the

In the late 1840s Delacroix painted a series of still lifes. Most often he depicted flowers using different techniques. Delacroix noted that when working on a still life, he always

The plot of the picture Delacroix borrowed from Byron’s poem. Young Don Juan, who after the first adventure with a woman decided to send away from home, from the Seville’s

The plot of the film “Freedom on the Barricades”, exhibited in the Salon in 1831, is addressed to the events of the bourgeois revolution of 1830. The artist created a

The painting depicts the allegorical figure of Greece, in many respects reminiscent of the famous Freedom from the canvas “Freedom leading the people.” She mournfully spread her hands over the

The artist also devoted this picture to Greece – there was his “Guernica” – the island of Chios, when the Turkish janissaries cut out without pity both children and the

Ophelia is a character in the tragedy of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” Hamlet’s lover. On the eve of her death, Ophelia had a long, difficult conversation with Hamlet,

Delacroix loved wild animals. In Paris, he constantly visited the zoo. In the zoo, the artist made a lot of sketches. Then these sketches turned into romantic scenes, where mighty

The Scythians are an ancient people that existed in the 8th c. BC. e. – IV century. n. e. The highest heyday Scythian kingdom in the Crimea reached in 30

Natchez is a people, a kind, most likely, Indians. It is not known, whether the artist described a specific case from the life of the Indians or is this a