2367514

OIL . MUSEUM REINTERPRETATION AFTER DELACROIX. #2367514

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OIL . MUSEUM REINTERPRETATION AFTER DELACROIX. #2367514
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DESCRITPION:? THE BARQUE OF DANTE?. MUSEUM REINTERPRETATION AFTER DELACROIX. The painting in question is a museum reinterpretation of the homonymous painting by the Great Master Delacroix. The shared influence of Michelangelo and Rubens is manifest here, but there is also a savour of the revolution and impressionist style. The original painting, Delacroix?s one was submitted to the Salon in 1822, and makes clear acknowledgement of its debt to Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa. Indeed, the influence of that painting can be traced for many years afterwards in Delacroix's work, for example, in his Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret (1854) or The Shipwreck of Don Juan (1840). The 'stage-setting' of The Barque of Dante looks forward to Baudelaire's pronouncement that Delacroix is an 'essentially literary' painter. But Delacroix had something much more important to leam from the Raft. In expressing the predicament of the shipwrecked everywhere in the world, Géricault had laid the foundations of an aesthetic revolution. The Raft of the Medusa marks the first appearance in painting of 'the ugly' and thereby proclaims its scrupulous respect for the truth, however repulsive the truth might be. This concern for truth is integral to the Romantic temperament. The picture depicts the scene in which Dante and Virgil reach the ferry that will take them across the river Acheron and to Hell proper. The ferry is piloted by Charon, who does not want to let Dante enter, for he is a living being. Virgil ...
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<tr><td>Condition:GOOD</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:XIX century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:ITALY</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:37</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:3.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:47.2</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:OIL . MUSEUM REINTERPRETATION AFTER DELACROIX.</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:OIL ON CANVAS</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:ITALIA</td></tr>
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