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Greeks on the Ruins of Missolonghi

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Description: Greeks on the Ruins of Missolonghi
TitleGreeks on the Ruins of Missolonghi
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1826
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions213 × 142 cm
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France
Accession numberAnc. 439
SubjectsGreece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829Slavery in artPainting, French--19th centuryLiberty in artWomen in artTurbansOttoman influences in art
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3. Liberty on the Barricades: Woman, Politics and Sexuality in Delacroix
Marcia Pointon
Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908
Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908
Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Guiding the People, more often popularly known as Liberty on the Barricades (plate 19), is one of Europe’s most familiar images...
Author
Marcia Pointon
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© Cambridge University Press 1990
Related print edition pages: pp.59-82
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22834&redirecttoanchor=28121
Chapter subject tags:Female nude in artDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863. Liberty leading the peopleGenderObjectification (Social psychology)David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825
Chapter 6: White Slavery
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Description: Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
“Awaiting slavery or death”: The subtitle of Delacroix’s Massacres of Chios makes the centrality of slavery to the Greek cause perfectly clear...
Author
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2002 by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Related print edition pages: pp.281-314
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20661&redirecttoanchor=28121
Chapter subject tags:Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863History painting, French--19th centurySlavery--Greece--HistoryTurkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Black people--Race identity--France--19th centuryPiratesBlack people in art--France--19th centuryGreece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829Painting, French--19th century
2. Philanthropic Conquest
Hugh Honour
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators
A black silhouetted against the sky has a place of key importance in Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, one of the greatest and most enigmatic paintings of the early nineteenth century ...
Author
Hugh Honour
PublisherHarvard University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Menil Foundation, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.97-166
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143.006
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Chapter subject tags:Slave trade in artSlaveryAntislavery movementsFree blacksAntislavery movements--Great BritainAntislavery movements--United States--History--19th centuryArt, French--19th centuryArt, American--19th centuryArt, British--19th century

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Description: Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1826
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France
Accession numberAnc. 439
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi,...
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Description: Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1826
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France
Accession numberAnc. 439
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi,...
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Description: Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1826
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France
Accession numberAnc. 439
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi,...
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, detail
Description: Scenes from the Scio Massacres
Scenes from the Scio Massacres
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions164 × 139 in. (419 × 354 cm)
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065870
Accession numberINV. 3823
Scenes from the Scio Massacres
Scenes from the Scio Massacres
Description: The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065870
The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Description: The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065870
The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Description: The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065870
The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Description: The Massacre at Chios, study
The Massacre at Chios, study
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor and lead on paper
Dimensions15 3/4 × 11 13/16 in. (40 × 30 cm)
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
The Massacre at Chios, study
The Massacre at Chios, study
Description: The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065870
The Massacre at Chios, detail
The Massacre at Chios, detail

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