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[[Image:Delacroix.jpg|140px|left|Eugene Delacroix]]
[[Image:Delacroix.jpg|140px|left|Eugene Delacroix]]
'''Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix''' (1798-1863) [[French]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] painter (For some the most important of the French Romantic painters). Delacroix was celebrated for the use of expressive color that influenced later painters, notably the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]]. As a lithographer, he illustrated works of Shakespeare, Walter Scott and Goethe.
'''Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix''' (1798-1863) [[French]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] painter (For some the most important of the French Romantic painters). Delacroix was celebrated for the use of expressive color that influenced later painters, notably the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]]. As a lithographer, he illustrated works of Shakespeare, Walter Scott and Goethe.
Some of his great works include: ''The Death of Sardanapalus'', 1827, ''Liberty Leading the People (28th July 1830)'', 1830, ''The Women of Algiers'', 1834, ''The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople'', 1840, ''Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret'', 1854, and ''Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains'', 1863.
''The last of the great Renaissance artists, Delacroix comes of a lineage whose founder is [[Michelangelo]] and whose prodigal son is [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]].'' <ref> [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/delacroix.html Eugene Delacroix at The Artchive] </ref>
''The last of the great Renaissance artists, Delacroix comes of a lineage whose founder is [[Michelangelo]] and whose prodigal son is [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]].'' <ref> [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/delacroix.html Eugene Delacroix at The Artchive] </ref>