FILE: 17_Death of Sardanapalus_Delacroix.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Death of Sardanapalus - ROMANTICISM

DESCRIPTION: DELACROIX. Diagonal death bed of crimson slash = very Rubenesque. Sardanapalus is 9th cent. BCE king (on bed) who ordered eunichs to kill wives, horses & court to take with him into his tomb. Bloody carnage. Essence of Romanticism. Poet Byron wrote of Sardanapalus. Greece considered foundation of the culture, the place where art began to the Europeans.