Keywords
Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
History painting
Crusades Rooms
How to Cite
Abstract
Worried about its future, the government of the July Monarchy (1830-48) invents a sort of national novel in painting, in Versailles in particular, expecting an indirect legitimation from it. In the episode of the Crusades (12th and 13th centuries), re-evaluated and sung by romanticism, Delacroix receives an order: the Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1204), delivered in 1840. We analyze here how, from an inglorious episode (in fact a plunder), it develops, by its plastic and chromatic poetics, all the dark and glaring contradictions.
References
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CHATEAUBRIAND, François René de. Essai sur les révolutions - Le génie du christianisme. Paris: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1978.
MICHAUD, Joseph François. Histoire des croisades (1808-1839). Édition abrégée et présentée par Robert Delort. Club français du Livre, 1970.
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