Historium

French painter Eugene Delacroix was one of the brightest examples of the French Romanticism movement. His painting Liberty Leading the People is one of the most remarkable revolutionary-themed paintings in history. Inspired by the Flemish Baroque and Venetian Renaissance painters, Delacroix was known for his depictions of powerful, dramatic scenes that occasionally involved mythologic and historical events. The Massacre at Chios is a large (419 cm × 354 cm) painting. It had its own interesting story of creation that started in 1823, a year after the actual events of this massacre happened in Greece. It took the lives of more than 40 000 people. Eugene Delacroix was spending days in the grey and cold Paris that was torn by several bloody revolutions and changes of regime. He had an acquaintance, mister August — a fellow painter who returned from a journey from Syria, Egypt, and Greece. He brought a lot of things back to France — weapons, traditional clothing, dishes, carpets, and waterc