File:Eugène Delacroix - The Death of Sardanapalus - WGA6173.jpg
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Eugène Delacroix: Death of Sardanapalus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q33477 |
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The Death of Sardanapalus |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | history painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Sardanapalus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1827 date QS:P571,+1827-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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height: 392 cm (12.8 ft); width: 496 cm (16.2 ft) dimensions QS:P2048,392U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,496U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q19675 |
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RF 2346 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre) |
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Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/d/delacroi/2/204delac.html" |
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JPEG file comment | DELACROIX, Eugène
(b. 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, d. 1863, Paris) The Death of Sardanapalus 1827 Oil on canvas, 392 x 496 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris In the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by the work of another Romantic, the poet Byron, Delacroix painted an apotheosis of cruelty. The composition, all reds and golds, portrays the holocaust of the legendary Assyrian king, destroying his possessions before committing suicide. The insurgents are attacking his castle; all is lost; stretched out on a sumptuous bed at the summit of an immense pyre, Sardanapalus orders eunuchs and palace officers to cut the throats of his women, his pages, and even his favourite dogs and horses; none of the objects that have served his pleasure are to survive him. His women are placed on a level with his horses and dogs. The diagonal rhythms, the fluidity of line, the brilliance of the colours and its profound sensuality make The Death of Sardanapalus a masterpiece of 19th-century art.
Author: DELACROIX, Eugène Title: The Death of Sardanapalus Time-line: 1801-1850 School: French Form: painting Type: historical |
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