1820s
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Scenes from the Massacres at Chios
Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix's decision in 1824 was to paint the aftermath, not the action. The Ottoman massacre of the Greek population of Chios had occurred two years earlier, in April 1822, during the Greek War of In
great0506·5/16/2026
Saturn Devouring His Son
Mural transferred to canvas · Francisco Goya
Goya painted Saturn on the wall of his own kitchen at sixty-eight, deaf for three decades, after surviving three regimes that wanted him dead. The reading of the Black Paintings as private therapy is
great0506·5/16/2026
