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Eugène Delacroix, a French Romantic artist, is renowned for his iconic painting Liberty Leading the People, which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830. This powerful artwork is ...

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Perhaps Delacroix’s most influential and most recognizable paintings, Liberty Leading the People was created to commemorate the July Revolution of 1830, which removed Charles X of France from power. Delacroix wrote in a letter to his brother that a bad mood that had been hold of him was lifting due ...

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In Darkytown Rebellion (2001), Afro-American artist Kara Walker (1969) displays a group of silhouettes on the walls, projecting the viewer, through his own shadow, into the midst of the scene. For many years, Walker has been tackling, in her work, the history of black people from the southern states...

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This painting depicts the moment in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Hamlet in which the protagonist, who has been speaking privately with his mother, Queen Gertrude of Denmark, notices a figure behind the curtains of her closet. Immediately afterward, Hamlet will impale the hidden Polonius with his sword...

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The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople is a large oil on canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix. It was commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838, and completed in 1840. The painting depicts a famous episode of the Fourth Crusade (12 April 1204), in which the Crusaders were diverted to Constantino...

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Grosz packed up his righteous indignation and fled Nazi Germany in 1932 for the shores of America, where he became a United States citizen in 1938. Grosz’ Cain, or Hitler in Hell (above) from 1944 places the dictator in the devil’s den, surrounded by the skeletal dead at his feet and clearly feeling...

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This well-preserved triptych was intended for domestic use for an unknown patron. The interlocking composition shows the people of Israel disobeying God's commandment by setting up a golden calf in the desert of Sinai and giving themselves over to dissipation. This took place after the long absence ...

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Edward Hopper said that Nighthawks was inspired by “a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet,” but the image—with its carefully constructed composition and lack of narrative—has a timeless, universal quality that transcends its particular locale. One of the best-known image...

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