Standing before the ten Delacroix canvases in the Louvre’s Salle des États, the critic Paul Konody asks how pictures now treated as classics could once have provoked such fury. He traces the painter’s war against academic rule, his colour and violent drama, and the quieter Eastern interiors that followed his journey to North Africa.
A compact, readable introduction to the painter many regard as the source of modern French art. Download the free EPUB.