Delacroix's Dante and Virgil as a romantic manifesto: politics and theory in the early 1820s. From: Art Journal | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Rubin, James H. | COPYRIGHT 1993 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Artists have often been torn between their desires to address relevant, usually political issues and their need to reach their audience without using radical artistic forms. Studies relating to this dilemma would do well to include an analysis of the work of Eugene Delacroix, Barque of Dante and Virgil Crossing the River Styx. The painting is compared to a manifesto: it deals with a group of themes and concerns that inform the Romanticism of the 1820s.

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