The French painter Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) repudiated the neoclassic manner and developed a freer and more romantic style with a particular emphasis on color. For 40 years Eugène Delacroix was one of the most...

The exhibition of Eugene Delacroix's paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art prove his ability as an artist. The artistic sensibility which guided Delacroix's work is very different from the modern sensibility. The melodrama and focus on historical and biblical themes seem irrelevant. But...

Su genio era tan agudo que ni las envidias, los celos, ni sus propias fallas lograron derrotarlo. En medio de terrible tempestad en el mar de Galilea, brincando los abismos y crestas de las olas y bajo un cielo negro de nubes,...

In the following essay, Hannoosh discusses the development of paradoxes and complexities in Delacroix's Journal. The critic also evaluates Delacroix's various articles on the arts as well as his unfinished essay Dictionnaire des Beaux-Arts.

In the following essay, an earlier version of which was presented as a lecture in 1996, Hannoosh examines Delacroix's conception of time, as seen in the Journal, and investigates the painter's reaction to the technological and industrial revolution occurring around him.

In the following essay, Porter analyzes the introspective aspects of Delacroix's Journal, evaluating what these deeply personal writings say about the author's artistic aesthetic, the role of conflict in his art, and self-identification.