Chios massacre
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Artist-Info: Author Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) Alternative names Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix Description French painter, draughtsman, aquarellist and photographer Date of birth/death 26 April 1798 13 August 1863 Location of birth/death Charenton-Saint-Maurice Paris Work location Paris, United Kingdom, France, Algeria, Morocco, Netherlands (1839), Belgium Authority control VIAF: 7389086 LCCN: n79086855 GND: 118524461 BnF: cb118991616 ULAN: 500115509 ISNI: 0000 0001 2098 8878 WorldCat WP-Person
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Chios (; Greek: Χίος, Khíos, Greek pronunciation: [ˈçi.os]) is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) off the Anatolian coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of mastic gum and its nickname is the Mastic Island. Tourist attractions include its medieval villages and the 11th-century monastery of Nea Moni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Chios regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Chios. Locals refer to Chios town as Chora (Χώρα literally means land or country, but usually refers to the capital or a settlement at the highest point of a Greek island).
It was also the site of the Chios massacre in which tens of thousands of Greeks on the island were killed by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822.
Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa, 1804, oil on canvas, 209 x 280 inches (Musée du Louvre, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
Note: Gros was a student of the Neo-Classical painter David, however, this painting, sometimes also titled, Napoleon Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa, is a proto-Romantic painting that points to the later style of Gericault and Delacroix. Gros was trained in David's studio between 1785-1792, and is most well known for recording Napoleon's military campaigns, which proved to be ideal subjects for exploring the exotic, violent, and heroic. In this painting, which measures more than 17 feet high and 23 feet wide, Gros depicted a legendary episode from Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt (1798-1801). On March 21, 1799, in a make-shift hospital in Jaffa, Napoleon visited his troops who were stricken with the Bubonic Plague. Gros depicts Napoleon attempting to calm the growing panic about contagion by fearlessly touching the sores of one of the plague victims. Like earlier neoclassical paintings such as David's Death of Marat, Gros combines Christian iconography, in this case Christ healing the sick, with a contemporary subject. He also draws on the art of classical antiquity, by depicting Napoleon in the same position as the ancient Greek sculpture, the Apollo Belvedere. In this way, he imbues Napoleon with divine qualities while simultaneously showing him as a military hero. But in contrast to David, Gros uses warm, sensual colors and focuses on the dead and dying who occupy the foreground of the painting. We see the same approach later in Delacroix's painting ofLiberty Leading the People (1830). Napoleon was a master at using art to manipulate his public image. In reality he had ordered the death of the prisoners who he could not afford to house or feed, and poisoned his troops who were dying from the plague as he retreated from Jaffa.
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Macedonia The layout of ancient Pella, Greece.
Macedonia The layout of ancient Pella, Greece.
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Learn about the significant layout of the ancient city of Pella.
The city was founded by Archelaus (413--399 BC) as the capital of his kingdom, replacing the older palace-city of Aigai (Vergina). After this, it was the seat of the king Philip II and of Alexander, his son. In 168 BC, it was sacked by the Romans, and its treasury transported to Rome. Later, the city was destroyed by an earthquake and eventually was rebuilt over its ruins. By 180 AD, Lucian could describe it in passing as now insignificant, with very few inhabitants.
Pella is first mentioned by Herodotus of Halicarnassus (VII, 123) in relation to Xerxes' campaign and by Thucydides (II, 99,4 and 100,4) in relation to Macedonian expansion and the war against Sitalces, the king of the Thracians. According to Xenophon, in the beginning of the 4th century BC, it was the largest Macedonian city. It was probably built as the capital of the kingdom by Archelaus, although there appears to be some possibility that it may have been Amyntas. It attracted Greek artists such the painter Zeuxis, the poet Timotheus of Miletus and the tragic author Euripides who finishes his days there writing and producing Archelaus.
Archelaus invited the painter Zeuxis, the greatest painter of the time, to decorate it. He was later the host of the Athenian playwright Euripides in his retirement. Euripides Bacchae premiered here, about 408 BC. Pella was the birthplace of Philip II and of Alexander, his son. The hilltop palace of Philip, where Aristotle tutored young Alexander, is being excavated.
In antiquity, Pella was a port connected to the Thermaic Gulf by a navigable inlet, but the harbor has silted, leaving the site landlocked. The reign of Antigonus likely represented the height of the city, as this is the period which has left us the most archaeological remains.
Pella is further mentioned by Polybius and Livy as the capital of Philip V and of Perseus during the Macedonian Wars. In the writings of Livy, we find the only description of how the city looked in 167 BC to Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, the Roman who defeated Perseus at the battle of Pydna:
...[Paulus] observed that it was not without good reason that it had been chosen as the royal residence. It is situated on the south-west slope of a hill and surrounded by a marsh too deep to be crossed on foot either in summer or winter. The citadel the Phacus, which is close to the city, stands in the marsh itself, projecting like an island, and is built on a huge substructure which is strong enough to carry a wall and prevent any damage from the infiltration from the water of the lagoon. At a distance it appears to be continuous with the city wall, but it is really separated by a channel which flows between the two walls and is connected with the city by a bridge. Thus it cuts off all means of access from an external foe, and if the king shut anyone up there, there could be no possibility of escape except by the bridge, which could be very easily guarded..[2]
The famous poet Aratus died in Pella c. 240 BC. Pella was sacked by the Romans in 168 BC, when its treasury was transported to Rome.
In the Roman province of Macedonia, Pella was the capital of the third district, and was possibly the seat of the Roman governor. Crossed by the Via Egnatia (Strabo VII, 323), Pella remained a significant point on the route between Dyrrachium and Thessalonika. Cicero stayed there in 58 BC, but by then the provincial seat had already transferred to Thessalonika. It was then destroyed by earthquake in the first century BCE; shops and workshops dating from the catastrophe have been found with remains of their merchandise. The city was eventually rebuilt over its ruins, which preserved them, but ca 180 AD Lucian of Samosata could describe it in passing as now insignificant, with very few inhabitants [3]
The city went into decline for reasons unknown (possibly an earthquake) by the end of the 1st century BC. It was the object of a colonial deduction sometime between 45 and 30 BC; in any case currency was marked Colonia Iulia Augusta Pella. Augustus settled peasants there whose land he had usurped to give to his veterans (Dio Cassius LI, 4). But unlike other Macedonian colonies such as Philippi, Dion, and Cassandreia it never came under the jurisdiction of ius Italicum or Roman law. Four pairs of colonial magistrates (IIvirs quinquennales) are known for this period.
The decline of the city was rapid, in spite of colonization: Dio Chrysostom and Lucian both attest to the ruin of the ancient capital of Philip II and Alexander; though their accounts may be exaggerated. In fact, the Roman city was somewhat to the west of and distinct from the original capital; which explains some contradictions between coinage, epigraphs, and testimonial accounts. In the Byzantine period, the Roman site was occupied by a fortified village.
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
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Ντοκιμαντέρ με Έλληνες μετανάστες στην Αγγλία
Documentary with Greek migrants in England
Το ντοκιμαντέρ ''Εξόριστοι Δραπέτες'' παρουσιάζει την ζωή κάποιων νέων Ελλήνων οι οποίοι έχουν μεταναστεύσει στην Αγγλία λόγω της πολύχρονης οικονομικής κρίσης που βίωναν στην Ελλάδα. Ο καθένας από την πλευρά του μας παρουσιάζει τις συνθήκες που αντιμετώπισε στην προσπάθεια που έκανε για ένα νέο ξεκίνημα σε μια ξένη χώρα, καθώς και τις προοπτικές που φαίνεται να έχει αυτή τους η επιλογή για το μέλλον.
Σκηνοθεσία, σενάριο, παρουσίαση, editing: Zdoup
Διεύθυνση φωτογραφίας: Κυριάκος Λουλακούδης
Γραφικά: Νέλλη Σαβράνη
Εικονολήπτης εισαγωγής (Αθήνα): Ανδρέας Λουλακούδης
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Athens, the capital of Greece, is surrounded by three mountains and the Saronic Gulf. The center of Athens offers something for everyone. A walk through Plaka, Monastiraki, Thissio and Psyri is full of neoclassical buildings and mansions and plenty of restaurants, cafes and bars. Kolonaki and Lycabettus Hill are the areas to find luxury shopping and dining. Syntagma Square is the center of the city, and all of these varied neighborhoods radiate from it. The coastal towns of Athens – Faliro, Glyfada and Voula are easily accessed by train. There are many important archaeological attractions in Athens: the Acropolis, the Odeion of Herodes, the ancient market (Agora), and the Kalmarmaro Stadium (used in the original Olympic Games). Athens also has countless museums: the Acropolis Museum, the Byzantine Museum, the Benaki Museum and the Museum of Cycladic Art to name just a few. Don't miss the changing of the guards on the streets surrounding the National Gardens. An incredible nightlife is available every night of the week – from bars and clubs downtown to seaside clubs in the southern suburbs.
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Marking World Refugee Day 2018 in Greece
With a variety of community-based and cultural events UNHCR offices in Greece marked World Refugee Day 2018 in solidarity #WithRefugees and together with partners, the authorities and local communities.
Athens joined 13 cities around the world for the second successful edition of the Refugee Food Festival in Greece, which attracted hundreds of visitors and significant public attention from 19 to 24 June 2018. A special Refugee Food Festival event on Lesvos welcomed several islanders and visitors at Nan restaurant in Mytilene on 20 June. With a lively and colourful cultural event refugee communities and partners marked the day in Athens, while in Ioannina, hundreds of refugees residing in western Greece joined with tens of civil society partners and the local authorities in a series of engaging activities based on arts, sports, music and cooking.
Events on Aegean islands included, among others, a football match between asylum seekers and locals on Kos, participatory activities for children and artistic exhibitions at the non-formal education centers of Leros and Kos, an event on trafficking in Rhodes, a discussion on Chios’ history of welcoming refugees following a visit of unaccompanied minors to Chios Mastic Museum and a children’s choir and musical performance of a well-known composer on Samos island.
Traditional Greek Dances in Chania - 6
ASI SE VE EL GRAFFITI EN ATENAS // ATHENS STREET ART
Graffiti en las calles de Atenas, Grecia. Un paseo de colores por el arte clandestino y urbano que se pinta sobre las paredes y muros.
El graffiti es como un escupitajo de expresión sobre la propiedad privada. Para sus creadores es una forma de manifestarse, de marcar territorio, de perdurar en las calles. Para algunos transeúntes es arte sobre los murales y para otros un simple acto de vandalismo.
Hay que reconocer el asombroso talento y riesgo en que se ponen muchos artistas para poder autofinanciar la ejecución de enormes murales en edificios. Muchos de sus trabajos llevan mensaje, tienen sentido y armonía ofreciendo una obra de arte al público al margen de la ley. Diseños que puede llegar a ser polémico y descodificables por la mayoría. Principal diferencia que tiene frente al tagging, una encriptada firma antisocial.
Caminado por Atenas, Grecia pude encontrarme con algunas de las obras más representativas de las escena local que tiene un destacado prestigio en Europa.
Hay sin duda un hervidero creativo de graffiteros y taggers, de crews que se juntan para expresarse entre las paredes de Monastriaki, en el corazón de la capital. Aquí algunas muestras
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Graffiti on the streets of Athens, Greece. A colourful walk by the underground street art that is painted on the walls.
Graffiti is like an expressive spit on private property. For its creators is a form of expression, to mark territory, to persist in the streets. For some people is art on the wall and for others a simple act of vandalism.
We must recognize the amazing talent and risk that many artists go through to self-finance the implementation of huge murals on buildings.
Many of their works carry a message, make sense and harmony offering a work of art to the public. Everything outside the law. Designs that can be controversial and decodable by most. That's the main difference is against tagging, an antisocial encrypted signature.
Walking through Athens, Greece could I found some of the most representative works of the local scene that has an outstanding reputation in Europe.
There is definitely a creative nest of graffiti artists and taggers, of crews coming together to express themselves at the walls of Monastriaki, in the heart of the capital. Here some samples.
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500 Years of Human Dissection
Public Lecture with David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, and Dominic Hall, Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Throughout 500 years of human dissection, anatomists have struggled to maintain access to cadavers amid shifting laws and social mores. This lecture will chronicle the legal and ethical tensions involved in obtaining cadavers and how practices have changed over time. The speakers will discuss how acquisition arrangements once considered to be acceptable, even routine, became problematic and evolved into current donation systems and respectful dissection.
Presented in conjunction with Body of Knowledge: A History of Anatomy, an exhibition at Harvard University's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, one of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. It closed December 5, 2014.
Sponsored by the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Recorded September 16, 2014.
South Bay Greek Festival ~ 2012....Church Group Dancing Performance!
St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church in Redondo Beach, CA., hosted a three day Greek festival on July 13, 14 & 15 with various dancing performances, superb Greek food, games for the kids, open dancing for the public, music provided by The Olympians.
Department of Sex Work at Athens Biennale
We met Laura and Lauren at Athens Biennale, a contemporary art exhibition in Athens. They study art and anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, but prefer to introduce themselves as sex workers and artists, rather than academics.
Excluded from many university structures for the focus of their art and activism, they created a faux institution, the Department of Sex Work. The intent of the project is to critique these marginalizing structures through performance, while also educating the public. In direct communication with their audience, they can control their own narratives.
With their work as administrators of Goldsmiths' Sex Worker Solidarity Society and the Sex Worker Art Collective, a community space that gives sex workers voice through art, they hope to create a more empathetic environment for sex worker labor rights.
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Hellenic navy seals demonstration of Underwater Demolition Command - Thessaloniki 26/10/17
Hellenic Navy Seal conducts a public demonstration of capabilities involving fast rope and a ship overtaking. Filmed at Thessaloniki Port, 26 October 2017.
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ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ Α. ΑΡΤΕMΗΣ: ΤΗΝ ΠΑΦΟ ΠΟΥ ΟΙ ΘΕΟΙ ΕΚΑΝΑΝ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΤΟΥΣ ...
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(Μουσική σύνθεση Ανδρέα Α. Αρτέμη)
ΠΑΦΟΣ ΕΝΑΛΙΑ
Μέσα από τα μάτια των διαφόρων ξένων περιηγητών που πέρασαν από τη γη της Πάφου, ξεδιπλώνεται η μακραίωνη ιστορία μέσα από τους αιώνες. Γεγονός που καταμαρτυρούν κι οι πλούσιες αρχαιότητες και οι πανέμορφες φυσικές ομορφιές, οι πολλές μικρές της εκκλησίες και τα γραφικά χωριουδάκια γύρω-γύρω. Μπορεί ο αναγνώστης να μη βλέπει σήμερα τα όσα περιγράφονται από τους ξένους ταξιδιώτες, γιατί η όμορφη πόλη έχει καταστραφεί πολλές φορές και από φυσικές καταστροφές, όπως μεγάλους σεισμούς, αλλά και από τους διάφορους κατακτητές που πέρασαν από το νησί και δεν άφησαν ανέπαφη και την περιοχή της Πάφου.
Το φαινόμενο της ακμής και της παρακμής άγγισε και την όμορφη γενέθλια πόλη της θεάς Αφροδίτης, λες και τη ζήλεψαν θεοί και άνθρωποι και θέλησαν κατά καιρούς να την εκδικηθούν, αφανίζοντας τις ομορφιές της και τα επιτεύγματα των ανθρώπων της. Σε πείσμα όλων αυτών, ωστόσο, «το μικρό χωριό που έσφυζε από αρχαία ερείπια, σήμερα σφύζει από ζωή και αποτελεί το δημοφιλέστερο τουριστικό προορισμό του νησιού».
Κι όπως διαβάζουμε στην εισαγωγή του βιβλίου: «Η πόλη της Πάφου ιδρύθηκε κατά τα τέλη του 4ου π.Χ. αιώνα από το Νικοκλή, τελευταίο βασιλιά της Παλαιπάφου. Ονομάστηκε Νέα Πάφος για να διαφέρει από την παλιά πόλη Παλαίπαφο που υπήρχε ήδη από την εποχή του Ύστερου Χαλκού. Λίγο αργότερα η Κύπρος πέρασε στην κυριαρχία των Πτολεμαίων και προσαρτήθηκε στο βασίλειο της Αιγύπτου.
Κάτω από την ευνοϊκή κυριαρχία των Πτολεμαίων, η νέα Πάφος αναπτύχθηκε και τον 2ον π.Χ. αιώνα έγινε η πρώτη πρωτεύουσα όλης της Κύπρου, ένα προνόμιο που κράτησε κατά τη διάρκεια των ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών περιόδων και μέχρι τον 4ον μ.Χ. αιώνα. Η πόλη ήταν διακοσμημένη με λαμπρού ναούς και δημόσια κτήρια και τα μωσαϊκά της μαρτυρούν την ευμάρεια και τον πλούτο που υπήρχε...
Η πόλη διαδραμάτισε ακόμη ένα σημαντικό λαμπρό ρόλο στην ιστορία κατά τη διάρκεια της εξάπλωσης του Χριστιανισμού. Η μικρή πόλη ονομάστηκε Κτήμα, ίσως γιατί η γη ανήκε σ’ έναν πλούσιο ιππότη, και για πολλά χρόνια οι δύο πολίχνες συνυπάρχουν: Η Νέα Πάφος που αργότερα έγινε γνωστή σαν Κάτω Πάφος, η πρώτη πόλη στην παραλία κοντά, και το Κτήμα πιο μέσα. Το 1970 η κυπριακή κυβέρνηση κατάργησε τα παλιά τοπωνύμια και ονόμασε και τις δύο πολίχνες, που είχαν ήδη ενωθεί, Πάφος.
Ο μύθος και η παράδοση, όμως, αναφέρονται σε πιο ρομαντικές ιστορίες... θέλουν τον Αγαπήνωρα με τους Αρκάδες του να ιδρύουν τη Νέα Πάφο μετά τον Τρωικό Πόλεμο, αφού ο Αγαπήνωρας έκτισε πρώτα ιερό προς τιμήν της Αφροδίτης στα Κούκλια, την τότε Παλαίπαφο. Εκεί κοντά στην Πάφο κάποτε υπήρχε το φρούριο της Αφροδίτης όπου λατρευόταν το είδωλο της θεάς και από μακρινές χώρες έρχονταν ευγενείς κύριες και δεσποινίδες να το επισκεφθούν...».
Η πόλη της Πάφου διατηρεί ακόμα την ιδιαιτερότητά της, τη συνύπαρξη του αρχαίου και του σημερινού σε πλήρη αρμονία. Συνεχίζοντας να αναβιώνει στο μυαλό των ξένων και των ντόπιων σκηνές από το παρελθόν της και να τους δημιουργεί φιλοσοφικές ανησυχίες. «Ό,τι και να συμβαίνει, και την Άνοιξη τα λουλούδια συνεχίζουν να ανταγωνίζονται τα χρώματα των μωσαϊκών, οι παλιές γειτονιές στο διατηρούν τα στενά σοκάκια και ο ταξιδιώτης δένει μια κορδέλα στα κλαδιά της τρεμιθιάς πάνω από την κατακόμβη των Επτά Κοιμώμενων, με την υπόσχεση να επιτρέψει».
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ΣΥΝΘΕΤΟΝΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΩΝΤΑΣ ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΑ
The Composer Andreas Artemis lists a large number of instances both in Cyprus and Greece and elsewhere with his own compositions or interpreting other great composers' works as a soloist from the classic to modern and international repertoire. From 1985 until today has presented musical works in private and public places of Athens, Cyprus and other parts of Greece as a major gallery in the House of Cyprus in Athens and in major theaters also collaborated with many cultural institutions events municipalities in Cyprus and Greece. at all events Literary Societies where is a member, events magazines and Letters, As always aiming at the promotion of poetry ¨ Music Composition based on many years of hard work. Until now lists a significant number of instances in Cyprus and abroad with his own compositions set to music after a large number of poems Elladiton, Cypriot and foreign artists.So far issued 21 CDs.
Bronzes from the Aegean: The Lost Cargos and the Circumstances of Their Recovery
Bronzes from the Aegean: The Lost Cargos and the Circumstances of Their Recovery
Eugène Delacroix Paintings (1798–1863) Volume One - 4K UltraHD Silent Slideshow
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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 often violent action.
However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible. Together with Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting, and one of the few who was ever photographed.
Early life
Eugène Delacroix was born on 26 April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Île-de-France, near Paris. His mother was named Victoire Oeben, the daughter of the cabinet-maker Jean-François Oeben. He had three much older siblings. Charles-Henri Delacroix (1779–1845) rose to the rank of General in the Napoleonic army. Henriette (1780–1827) married the diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1762–1822). Henri was born six years later. He was killed at the Battle of Friedland on 14 June 1807.
There are medical reasons to believe that Eugène's legitimate father, Charles-François Delacroix, was not able to procreate at the time of Eugène's conception. Talleyrand, who was a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and whom the adult Eugène resembled in appearance and character, considered himself as his real father. Throughout his career as a painter, he was protected by Talleyrand, who served successively the Restoration and king Louis-Philippe, and ultimately as ambassador of France in Great Britain, and later by Talleyrand's grandson, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III and speaker of the French House of Commons. His legitimate father, Charles Delacroix, died in 1805, and his mother in 1814, leaving 16-year-old Eugène an orphan.
His early education was at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen where he steeped himself in the classics and won awards for drawing. In 1815 he began his training with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in the neoclassical style of Jacques-Louis David. An early church commission, The Virgin of the Harvest (1819), displays a Raphael-esque influence, but another such commission, The Virgin of the Sacred Heart (1821), evidences a freer interpretation. It precedes the influence of the more colourful and rich style of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, and fellow French artist Théodore Géricault, whose works marked an introduction to Romanticism in art.
The impact of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa was profound, and stimulated Delacroix to produce his first major painting, The Barque of Dante, which was accepted by the Paris Salon in 1822. The work caused a sensation, and was largely derided by the public and officialdom, yet was purchased by the State for the Luxembourg Galleries; the pattern of widespread opposition to his work, countered by a vigorous, enlightened support, would continue throughout his life. Two years later he again achieved popular success for his The Massacre at Chios.
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