The Massacre at Chios [SEP] creator
The Massacre at Chios
The Massacre at Chios () is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destruction visited on the Island of Chios in the Chios massacre. A frieze-like display of suffering characters, military might, ornate and colourful costumes, terror, disease and death is shown in front of a scene of widespread desolation.
Unusually for a painting of civil ruin during this period,"
by a vigorous, enlightened support, would continue throughout his life. Two years later he again achieved popular success for his "The Massacre at Chios".
Career.
Career "Chios" and "Missolonghi".
Delacroix's painting of the massacre at Chios shows sick, dying Greek civilians about to be slaughtered by the Turks. One of several paintings he made of this contemporary event, expressed the official policy for the Greek cause in their war of independence against the Turks, war sustained by English, Russian and French