Delacroix : a life / Timothy Wilson-Smith

with a lingering whiff of sulphur: 'Delacroix: A Life' - Timothy Wilson ...

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1992/10/25 - THIS IS a cautious, circumspect life of an artist whose death-laden and erotic paintings - The Barque of Dante, The ... BOOK REVIEW / A pure classic - with a lingering whiff of sulphur: 'Delacroix: A Life' - Timothy Wilson-Smith: ...

Wilson-Smith does not deny Delacroix's complexity, but he cannot convey it: the volcanic flame that inspired the next generation and fired Van Gogh and Cezanne is cold. Despite its well-researched precision, this book reminds one of Delacroix's own painting of The Execution of the Doge Marino Falieri - a periphery crowded with figures and detail, but the centre void, a blank space of stairs and, at their foot, a corpse.

1992, English, Book, Illustrated edition:Delacroix : a life / Timothy Wilson-Smith.Wilson-Smith, Timothy.

Bookmark: https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43194077

Physical Description

• 253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Published

• London : Constable, 1992.

Language

• Englis