Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Tome 3 (de 3) : 1855-1863

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863

Contributor:

Flat, Paul, 1865-1918

Piot, René, 1866-1934

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Tome 3 (de 3)" by Eugène Delacroix is a personal journal written in the mid-19th century. This work serves as a detailed account of the life of the renowned French Romantic artist, capturing his thoughts, social interactions, and artistic reflections during a pivotal period of his career and the cultural milieu of Paris. The journal likely explores Delacroix's daily experiences, artistic endeavors, and the influences around him during those years. The opening of the journal presents a series of dated entries that illustrate Delacroix's social calendar and introspections. He dines with notable figures, discusses art and philosophy with contemporaries such as Victor Cousin and Louis Viardot, and expresses his opinions on music and visual art. Through these entries, readers are introduced to Delacroix's opinions on various artistic techniques, his reactions to exhibitions, and his involvement in the literary and artistic elite of Paris. The narrative smoothly weaves between personal anecdotes and broader reflections on the role of art, indicating his passion and dedication as both a painter and a thinker. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Credits:

Produced by Laura Natal Rodriguez and Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version, also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.

Notes:

Reading ease score: 77.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2017-04-24