Eugene Delacroix, the titan of French art, is taking his bicentennial bows.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | April 15, 1998| | Copyright

PARIS _ On a showery April afternoon, several school-age children are roller-skating along a path near the Palais du Luxembourg, home of the French Senate.

As they pass an imposing bronze monument by the sculptor Jules Dalou, one child looks up and exclaims, ``C'est Delacroix!'' The fierce-looking figure is indeed Eugene Delacroix, the great romantic painter who occupies a prominent niche in the pantheon of French art.

Delacroix has been called the last Old Master and the last great religious painter, and he was both. He also was the last painter who ...

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