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Delacroix unleashes a chaos of colour and violence as the doomed Assyrian king watches his treasures and concubines destroyed before his own death. Sensual, brutal and operatic, it scandalized Paris and became a Romantic touchstone. Movement and red-hot colour overwhelm the eye.
The Death of Sardanapalus
- Date1827
- MovementRomanticism
- WhereLouvre, Paris
- RegionFrance