Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople , Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix
1840, oil on canvas, 81 × 99 cm
Paris, Musée du Louvre
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Einzug der Kreuzfahrer in Konstantinopel (Einnahme Konstantinopels durch die Kreuzritter), Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix
1840, Öl auf Leinwand, 81 × 99 cm
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Historienmalerei, Auftraggeber: König Louis Philippe, für die historischen Galerien von Versailles
Stil: Romantik
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Η είσοδος των Σταυροφόρων στην Κωνσταντινούπολη. Ευγένιος Ντελακρουά
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The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople) or "The Crusaders Entering Constantinople" is a large painting by Eugène Delacroix. It was commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838, and completed in 1840. Painted in oil on canvas, it is in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Delacroix's painting depicts a famous episode of the Fourth Crusade (12 April 1204), in which the Crusaders abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and Jerusalem, and instead sacked the Christian (Eastern Orthodox) city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The painting shows Baldwin I of Constantinople at the head of a procession through the streets of the city following the assault; on all sides are the city's inhabitants who beg for mercy.[1]
The painting's luminosity and use of colour owes much to Delacroix's study of the Old Masters, such as Paolo Veronese.[1] The painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1841, where the painterly romanticism of its style was controversial; Le Constitutionnel deplored "the confused and strangled composition, the dull earthy colours and the lack of definite contours", but Baudelaire appreciated the work's "abstraction faite".[1]
Notes
^ : a b c Pool, p. 36.
References
Pool, Phoebe (1969). Delacroix. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-03796-7
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