Romanticism & Liberalism Liberty Leading the People Eug è ne Delacroix, 1830
Eug è ne Delacroix, painter French
A big size oil on canvas painting 260 cm x 320 cm
Pyramidal composition & light constrast light shadow
Romantic style nature indivi- duals fee- lings free- dom
back- ground: Paris Three distances in a view fore- ground: main characters middle- ground: the people
Some keys of the painting Barricade fight What for? Where? Who? People Liberty How? Paris
Chronic of a Revolution (I) symbols of the revo- lution weapons barri- cade dead & injured people royal army
Chronic of a Revolution (II) The « Trois Glorieuses » 27, 28 & 29 July 1830 Charles X Bourbon Absolutist Louis- Philippe Orl é ans Liberal
Revolutionary France flag colours blue red white
A propaganda painting (to show and not to show) Salon, 1831 (scandal & censored) Revolution,1848 (shown again) Mus é e du Louvre, after 1874 (national identity icon) Universal Exhibition,1855 (attraction)