1830s
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Medea about to Kill her Children
Painting · Eugene Delacroix
Delacroix's Medea about to Kill her Children (1838) brings the Greek tragedy into full Romantic register, the sorceress half in shadow at the moment before the act.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Gre
Tristithea·6/27/2026
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Woodblock print (Japanese ukiyo-e) · Katsushika Hokusai
Created around 1831 as part of Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjūrokkei), The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki Nami-ura) is the single most-recognized image of Japanese
Tristithea·5/28/2026
Liberty Leading the People
Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix did not fight on the barricades of the July Revolution. He wrote to his brother that if he could not fight for his country he would at least paint for it. The painting that resulted is the c
great0506·5/16/2026
