Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People - Accidental Icon? - Louvre Museum

Описание: SUMMARY: Liberty Leading the People : a painting long accepted as an iconic image of the triumphant French Republic. This was never Delacroix's intention however; he essentially backed the Establishment, and mob violence terrified him. Is the painting's popularity based on a total misunderstanding?

FULL MOVIE
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DVD: http://goo.gl/kPb03 (soon in English, sorry!)

CHAPTERS (Act I)
[00:00] Introduction
[01:12] Act I: Who got it wrong? Part I.A: the viewer's mistake?
[04:37] Part I.B: a goddess in paris
[07:12] Part I.C: democracy- the ugly side?

ARTWORKS

Amédée Bourgeois - The Attack on the Hôtel de Ville, 28 July 1830 (1831) -- Versailles

Alfred Le Petit - The Two Republics (1873)

Géricault - Scene of Cannibalism on the Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre

Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre

Daumier - A Literary Discussion in the Second Gallery (1864)

Géricault - Study of Human Members (1819) - Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Henry Scheffer - Joan of Arc entering Orleans (1843) -- Versailles

Delacroix - The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) - Louvre

Agasias of Ephesus - The Borghese Gladiator (circa 100 BC) - Louvre

N. de la Courteille - Truth brings the Republic and Prosperity (1793) - Vizille, Musée de la Révolution

Gros - Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole (1796) -- Versailles

Gros - The Battle of Eylau (1808) - Louvre

Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville (1850) -- Versailles

Guillon-Lethière - Enrolling the Volunteers (1799) - Vizille, Musée de la Révolution

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse - Napoleon crowned by Time (1833) - Musée de Bois-Préau

Thomas Fielding - Eugène Delacroix (1825) - Musée Delacroix

François Gérard - Louis-Philippe I (1833) -- Versailles

Hippolyte Lecomte - Fighting in the rue de Rohan (1831) - Musée Carnavalet

Menelaus and Patroclus, copy of Greek original, IVth century BC -- Vatican

François Biard - Four o'clock in the Salon - Louvre

Delacroix - The Massacre at Scio (1824) - Louvre

MUSICS

Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilitch (1840 - 1893)
Violin Concerto - Allegro Moderato
Jascha Heifetz, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner

Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilitch (1840 - 1893)
Ouverture Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner

Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No 10
Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by George Szell

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Symphony n°7 - Vivace
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner

Piano Concerto No. 5 "The Emperor"- Allegro - Adagio
Van Cliburn - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner

Symphony No.8 - Allegro Vivace
Vienna Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Scherchen

Leonora 0verture, No. 3
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler

Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" - Allegro con Brio
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner

Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
Werther
Paris National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Elie Cohen