Delacroix's The Massacre at Chios
1824 · Work
Delacroix's huge canvas of dying Greek civilians beneath a Turkish horseman stuns the Salon of 1824 — 'the massacre of painting', the painter Gros sneered — and makes him the leader of French Romanticism.
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More from The Greek War of Independence
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Greece rises against the Ottomans (1821)
- Byron dies at Missolonghi (1824)
- Greek independence recognised (1830)
- The Chios massacre (1822)
- Battle of Navarino (1827)
- The fall of Missolonghi (1826)
- Assassination of Capodistrias (1831)
Around 1824
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)