The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) - Softcover

'An immensely valuable and stimulating resource ... fully deserves its title.' The Art Book

'These essays will appeal very widely. Specialists will find in them fresh ideas and new material, students, a stimulating initiation both to Delacroix and to more general forces in French culture.' Modern Language Review

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over Classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix also provides a chronology of the artist's life, set into its political and cultural contexts, as well as a list of suggested further readings in the topic areas.