How to represent violence?
The purest one, at the time of the shock and the blow?
This fascinating moment, like death or love, Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) very often fixed it.
It is at the center of
Scenes of the massacres of Scio
(1824) or
Combat of knights in the countryside
(1825).
It radiates in the foreground in
The Death of Sardanapalus
with this naked courtesan slaughtered or in
The Assassination of the Bishop of Liège
.
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Baudelaire, a writer who worshiped images
Liberty leading the people
is a burden, an assault, a proud all-rounder.
As well as the battles of Taillebourg and Nancy, or his Attila which adorns the library of the Bourbon palace.
Or, on the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, the god of light shooting his arrows at the serpent Python.
The most savage violence is done by most of its lions and tigers, unless they themselves fall prey to the hunters.
She finally goes as far as his
Fight of Jacob with the Angel
and his
Saint Michael slaying the dragon
, the last great works in Saint-Sulpice.
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