Delacroix
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Art lovers interested in Delacroix and French Romantic painting
- Self-learners who want an English-language critical introduction to Western art history
- Readers who pair it with art albums and want to see how early art criticism was written
Not a good fit for
- Art specialists who need abundant high-resolution plates or modern scholarly research
- Readers with no background in Western art history who expect a richly illustrated primer
Reading tips
- Look at images of Delacroix's representative works first, then read the corresponding critical chapters
- Take notes on the author's core judgments as you read and compare them with your own impressions
- Supplement with a standard history of nineteenth-century French painting for background
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Paul George Konody (1872–1933) was a Hungarian-born British art critic and art historian. Born in Budapest, he later settled in London and wrote for many years for the Daily Mail and The Observer. An authority on the authentication of Renaissance art, he exposed the claim by Bode that the bust Flora was by Leonardo da Vinci, and he was influential in both connoisseurship and criticism. Four of his works are held in this collection: Delacroix, Chardin, Raphael and Filippo Lippi. They centre on major European painters and combine critical biography with appreciation. He also wrote lives of Raphael and Velázquez. His writing addresses general readers and stresses stylistic analysis and the broader context of art history. Public information on his life and work is limited, and the present account rests on the facts given above.
