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The Murder of the Bishop of Liège

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was enthusiastic about the work, stating that "for the movement and fury of its composition, it is an inimitable masterpiece, a painted whirlwind, everything moving frantically in this little space, emerging from which one seems to hear lamentations and thunder; never have we seen thrown onto a
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canvas a crowd more hard, more swarming, more screaming or more enraged This painting is truly tumultuous and loud; we hear it as much as we see it." However,
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Delacroix spent May to August 1825 in Great Britain, becoming devoted to its literature, especially Scott and
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Its violent subject is typical of French Romantic painting and places it alongside the same artist's
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is furious debauchery by a barbarian. What is he in himself? A monkey adorned with
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91 cm × 116 cm (36 in × 46 in)
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Postcard of the Great Hall of the Palais de Justice in Rouen, c.1900
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is an oil painting on canvas created in 1829 by the French artist
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was just one of several works by the painter to be inspired by
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Eugène Delacroix à l'Exposition du Boulevard des Italiens
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was commissioned by the Duke of Orléans, the future king
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Allard, Sébastien; Fabre, Côme; Korchane, Mehdi (2018).
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scene of revolutionary violence in a huge room) and
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Index


Eugène Delacroix
Louvre
Paris
Eugène Delacroix
Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège
William I de La Marck
Wars of Liège
Walter Scott
Quentin Durward
Paris Salon
Louvre
Paris
The Death of Sardanapalus
The Execution of Doge Marino Faliero
Boissy d’Anglas
chiaroscuro
The Battle of Nancy

William Shakespeare
musée des beaux-arts de Caen

Louis-Philippe
chiaroscuro
Westminster Hall
Palais de Justice
Rouen
Austerlitz
Waterloo
Étienne-Jean Delécluze

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