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| - | '''Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix''' (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a [[French Romantic painter]] regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the [[French Romantic school]]. | + | '''Desdemona''' is a character in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Othello]]'' (c.1601 – 1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a [[Venice, Italy|Venetian]] beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with [[Othello (character)|Othello]], a man several years her senior and not of her race. When her husband is deployed to [[Cyprus]] in the service of the [[Republic of Venice]], Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his [[Ensign (rank)|ensign]] [[Iago]] into believing she is an [[adultery|adultress]], and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse. |
| - | Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the [[Impressionist]]s, while his passion for the [[exoticism|exotic]] inspired the artists of the [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolist]] movement. A fine [[lithograph|lithographer]], Delacroix illustrated various works of [[William Shakespeare]], the Scottish writer [[Sir Walter Scott]], and the German writer [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]. He was a member of the [[Club des Hashischins]] and is best remembered for his 1827 painting ''[[The Death of Sardanapalus]]''. To [[19th century Paris]]ians Delacroix was the founder of [[modern art]]. "The majority of the public," wrote [[Charles Baudelaire]] in his 1846 review of the salon (published posthumously in ''[[Curiosités esthétiques]]'') "have long since, indeed from his very first work, dubbed him leader of the modern school." | + | The role has attracted notable actresses through the centuries and has the distinction of being the role performed by [[Margaret Hughes]], the first actress to appear on an English public stage. |
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| - | == Baudelaire on Delacroix == | + | |
| - | Baudelaire worshipped [[Delacroix]] as a dark god and wrote in ''[[Les Phares]]'': "Delacroix, lake of blood, haunted by evil angels" | + | |
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| - | Baudelaire considered Delacroix as the originator of [[modern art]] and he wrote in his review of the [[Paris Salon of 1846]]: "The majority of the public have long since, indeed from his very first work, dubbed him leader of the modern school." --Charles Baudelaire in ''[[Curiosités esthétiques]]''. | + | |
| - | == Maurice Barrés on Delacroix == | + | |
| - | Mario Praz notes in ''[[The Romantic Agony]]'' that "Delacroix [was] the object of a veritable cult on the part of [[Maurice Barrès]]. "[[Du sang, de la volupté, de la mort]]" might well be the motto of his work," he adds. | + | |
| - | ==List of works== | + | |
| - | *''Mademoiselle Rose,'' (1817-1824), the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Barque of Dante]]'', 1822, the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Orphan Girl at the Cemetery]]'', 1823 | + | |
| - | *''Head of a Woman'', 1823 | + | |
| - | *''[[Louis I de Valois, Duke of Orléans|Louis of Orléans]] Unveiling his Mistress'', c1825–26, [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection]], [[Madrid]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Mephistopheles]] flying over [[Wittenberg]]'', 1828 | + | |
| - | *''[[A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother]]'', 1830 | + | |
| - | *''[[The Women of Algiers]],'' 1834, the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''The Natchez'', 1835 | + | |
| - | *Delacroix, Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris, 1833–37 | + | |
| - | *''[[Frédéric Chopin]],'' 1838, the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''[[George Sand]]'', 1838, Ordrupgaard-Museum, [[Copenhagen, Denmark]] | + | |
| - | *''Fanatics of Tangier'', 1838, [[Minneapolis Institute of Arts]] | + | |
| - | *''Columbus and His Son at La Rábida'', 1838, [[National Gallery of Art]] | + | |
| - | *''Jewish Wedding in Morocco'', c1839, the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople]],'' 1840, the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Hamlet]] with [[Guildenstern]] (Act III, Scene II)'', 1835–43 | + | |
| - | *''[[Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius]]'', 1844, [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon]] | + | |
| - | *''Apollo slaying Python'', 1851, the [[Louvre]] | + | |
| - | *''Christ on the Sea of Galilee'', 1854 | + | |
| - | *''[[Jerusalem Delivered|Clorinda Rescues Olindo und Sophronia]]'', 1856 | + | |
| - | *''Bride of Abydos'', 1857 | + | |
| - | *''The Death of [[Desdemona]],'' 1858 | + | |
| - | *''The Justice of Trajan'', 1858, oil on canvas, [[Honolulu Academy of Arts]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Ovid among the Scythians]]'', oil on cavas, 1859 | + | |
| - | *''Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable'', 1860 | + | |
| - | *''Lion Hunt,'' 1861, [[Art Institute of Chicago]] | + | |
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| - | == Famous paintings == | + | |
| - | *''[[The Death of Sardanapalus]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Liberty Leading the People]]'' | + | |
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| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | * ''[[Jacob Wrestling with the Angel]]'', the name given to at least three different major paintings, including one (1861) by Eugène Delacroix. | + | |
| - | * [[Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu]], friend, colleague, and photographer | + | |
| - | * [[Musée national Eugène Delacroix]], his last apartment in Paris | + | |
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Desdemona is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c.1601 – 1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a man several years her senior and not of her race. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adultress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.
The role has attracted notable actresses through the centuries and has the distinction of being the role performed by Margaret Hughes, the first actress to appear on an English public stage.
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