Delacroix’s Liberty shows her true colours after Louvre restoration
Eight layers of varnish had drowned iconic painting’s colours over time, as coating became yellow with oxidation
March 2018
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Tacita Dean's triple threat and a meaty display of Francis Bacon – the week in art
Dean gets set for exhibitions at two national galleries, Edinburgh serves up important paintings by Bacon and Tate Modern pays tribute to boundary-breaking performance artist Joan Jonas
March 2016
Guardian Opinion cartoon
Steve Bell on the refugee crisis in Europe
Aid agencies and NGOs have said Europe’s ‘unconscionable’ response to the refugee crisis is courting humanitarian disaster
February 2016
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – some astonishing works
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – hero worship without a hero
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Definitive Delacroix and five stars for Bosch out of hell – the week in art
Damnation, Dante and decadence: why Eugène Delacroix is making a hero’s return
May 2013
Jonathan Jones on art
From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy
Jonathan Jones: While Botticelli painted a mean Paradiso, Gustave Doré's dark drawings have been used to publicise Dan Brown's latest novel. We look at the art inspired by Dante's timeless text
February 2013
Delacroix painting at Lens Louvre gallery defaced with permanent marker
The graffiti tag made was later removed from the canvas without damaging the 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People
April 2012
Peter Duggan's artoons
Peter Duggan's Artoons: Eugène Delacroix
Cartoonist Peter Duggan takes Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and imagines what effect Liberty's wardrobe malfunction might have had on her career
October 2011
Politics blog
Protesters of the world beware: remember what happened to Liberty
Michael White: Excited bloggers and tweeters who think mankind's problem-solving revolution is finally at hand should ponder their history books
February 2011
Jonathan Jones on art
Eugene Delacroix and Tahrir Square
Jonathan Jones: Delacroix's image of revolution, Liberty Leading the People, helps us see the protests in Egypt and Iran in a new light
March 2010
Jonathan Jones on art
Art criticism starts with love and hate
Jonathan Jones: Overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, is fraught with peril
April 2005
Cry freedom
Jonathan Jones on how Delacroix captured the ecstasy of liberty.
March 2003
One day in the kingdom of darkness
Jean-Paul Kauffmann raises questions of truth and identity in his study of Delacroix's Wrestling With the Angel, says Andrew Motion
February 2003
A beautiful friendship
Exhibition explores romantic influences
January 2003
Jones on art
A taste of hell
Delacroix was more than a mere romantic painter, says Jonathan Jones. He was the source of all modern art's depravity.
