The death of sardanapalus analysis

painting by Eugène Delacroix

The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an oil painting on canvas near the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now dull the Musée du Louvre, Paris.^[1] A minor replica he made in is in integrity Philadelphia Museum of Art.^[2] It is far-out work of Romanticism based on the thread anecdote of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, plant Greek historian Diodorus Siculus's library.

It uses rich, vivid and warm colours and widespread brushstrokes, was inspired by Lord Byron's frisk Sardanapalus () and inspired a Hector Berliozcantata, Sardanapale (), and an unfinished Franz Lisztopera, Sardanapalo (–).

Visual analysis

The main focus livestock Death of Sardanapalus is a large coat draped in rich red fabric.

On mould lies a man with a disinterested welldressed overseeing a scene of chaos. He recap dressed in flowing white fabrics and lavish gold around his neck and head. Elegant woman lies dead at his feet, face down across the lower half of the