Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1485-1524 Related Paintings of Joachim Patinir :. | St Jerome in Rocky Landscape | Baptism of Christ | Baptism of Christ | Landscape with the Rest on the Flight | Triptych | Related Artists:
Ole Peter Hansen Balling1823-1906
Filippo Palizzipainted Antico corridoio napoletano in 1818 - 1899
Eugene DelacroixFrench Romantic Painter, 1798-1863
For 40 years Eugene Delacroix was one of the most prominent and controversial painters in France. Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school. As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him.
Born on April 28, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice, the son of an important public official, Delacroix grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances in spite of the troubled times. He received a good classical education at the Lycee Imperial. He entered the studio of Pierre Narcisse Guerin in 1815, where he met Theodore Gericaul