Delacroix and His Forgotten World

The Origins of Romantic Painting

Margaret MacNamidhe

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I B TAURIS
01 July 2015

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Romanticism; Painting & paintings

The image of Eugene Delacroix as an august artist with an august oeuvre was initially frozen into place by posthumous tributes and it has continued to the present. He was one of the finest yet least understood painters of the nineteenth century, the golden age of the French Romantic movement. He is remembered best for his masterpiece, La Liberte guidant le people, but few of his works have received the kind of constant, fascinated revisiting that has sealed the iconic status of Theodore Gericault's Le Radeau de la Meduse, for example. This book is one of the first to look carefully at individual paintings by Delacroix, especially at one of his most important works - a key but often overlooked painting from early Romanticism's heyday, Scene des massacres de Scio.

By: Margaret MacNamidhe
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 1.432kg
ISBN: 9781780769370
ISBN 10: 1780769377
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Delacroix's Elusive Paintings 2. Isolation in David and Delacroix 3. Paint that Divides and Gathers 4. The Lost Romantic 5. Stendhal's Art Criticism Reconsidered Envoi Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Select Bibliography Photo Credits Index

Margaret MacNamidhe is an art historian, specialising in the paintings of Eugene Delacroix. She is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago and Visiting Lecturer at Williams College, Massachusetts. She gained her Ph.D. from the History of Art department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Reviews for Delacroix and His Forgotten World: The Origins of Romantic Painting

'Few Irish art historians tackle important international subjects. Mac Namidhe shows that it is possible to do so - and to excel,' Dublin Review of Books;