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Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople ("Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople") or The Crusaders Entering Constantinople is a large painting by Eugène Delacroix. It was commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838, and completed in 1840. Painted in oil on canvas, it is in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Delacroix's painting depicts a famous episode of the Fourth Crusade (12 April 1204), in which the Crusaders abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and
which recreate the "Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople" and "Jacob wrestling with the Angel", there is a high degree of movement. Knights on horseback circle restlesly around the set of the Greek city, while Jerzy himself becomes part of the scene when he begins a wrestling match with the actor playing the Angel.
The tableaux vivants El Greco.
Set to Fauré’s Requiem, the tableau of the "Assumption of the Virgin" has parallel scenes in the motel involving Jerzy and Isabelle, who admits she is