Events from the year 1827 in France.
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Eugène Delacroix - Painter of the French Romanticism
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(piano music) Woman: We're in Louvre and we're looking at Delacroix's the Death of Sardanapalus, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1827. Man: It's a huge canvas and it turns every classical rule on its head. Woman: Including the idea of having a painting with a hero. Here we have Sardanapalus who is anything but a hero. Man: This is the height of romantic painting, and in fact its story comes from a romantic poet, Lord Byron, and it's the story of the Sysyrian King Sardanapalus who is being vanquished in battle but rather than surrender, has decided not only to kill himself, he's going to destroy everything that he finds pleasure in, the women, his slaves, all of his ornament, all of his treasure will be burned. Everything will come to an end. So this is a giant funerary pyar. Woman: So he sits high up on that bed propping his head up, looking with supreme indifference at the end of the lives of the women in his life, the end of all his beautiful possessions. Man: So this is a painting that is about corruption and it is the antithesis of the nobility of David and of the neoclassical tradition that came before romanticism. Woman: If you think back to neoclassical paintings with their very rigorous construction of space, where you can really clearly see where everything is in relationship to everything else. Here we have a space that's full of objects. All of the king's really luxurious possessions, gold and jewels and horses, and the space isn't so much constructed as filled up. Man: And it feels like everything in it, all of the bodies, the horses, the objects, they're all flames themselves. Recalling the flame that are about to be there, licking up in this serpentine curvilinear forms. So look at the horse for instance, which is practically an S-shape. Look at one the arms of the harp that's in the bottom middle, or the women themselves, these Arabasks. You can look at the scarf at the bottom of the bed. All of these things are snakelike and serpentine as if they themselves are the flames that are referenced. Woman: So there is all of this sense of writhing movement but the king at the top who sits very still and watches with that corrupt gaze, on this bed that is foreshortened, and so we have this idea of everything spilling down into our space, very much the artist's intention to engage the viewer and to appeal to our emotions. The woman in the foreground is being brutally murdered right before our eyes. The horse is being pulled against its will to a funeral pyar. This is a scene of death and destruction that is happening as close as possible to the viewer's space. Man: This must have been such a huge shock to a public that was used to looking at the clarity and precision of geometry. The rationalism, the heroism of the neoclassical. All of this violence, all of this luxury, is perfectly suited to Delacroix's signature use of brilliant color at least in contrast to the kind of modulation of color that the very subtly colored paintings that were traditional in the Salon. Woman: If you look at the flesh of the figures you don't see just that normal tonal modeling that we've come to expect in neoclassical paintings but we see figures where the shadows are greens and blues, and the highlights are oranges and golds. Delacroix is really thinking about color in a much more emotional and passionate way. Man: This painting really is an orgy of violence. It's an orgy of luxury and it's an orgy of corruption. (piano music)
Incumbents
Events
- April - Ottoman Algeria: Husain Dei slaps the French consul, Decalina, on the face, eventually leading to war and French rule in Algeria.
- 6 July - Treaty of London, signed by the United Kingdom, France and Russia calling upon Greece and the Ottoman Empire to cease hostilities.
- 20 October - Battle of Navarino: A combined British, French and Russian naval force destroys a combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada.
- 17 November - Legislative Election held for the third legislature of the Second Restoration.
- 24 November - Legislative Election held.
Births
January to June
- 28 January - Jean Antoine Villemin, physician (died 1892)
- 1 February - Alphonse James de Rothschild, banker and philanthropist (died 1905)
- 1 May - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (died 1906)
- 11 May - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor and painter (died 1875)
- 19 May - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, statesman (died 1896)
- 1 June - Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician (died 1891)
- 24 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (died 1897)
July to September
- 11 July - Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, author (died 1881)
- 12 July - Henri Rivière, Naval officer and writer (died 1883)
- 29 July - Louis Ratisbonne, writer and man of letters (died 1900)
- 16 September - Jean Albert Gaudry, geologist and palaeontologist (died 1908)
- 27 September - Pierre Tirard, politician (died 1893)
October to December
- 8 October - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and drama critic (died 1899)
- 25 October - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (died 1907)
- 1 November - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (died 1907)
- 23 November - Auguste Chauveau, professor and veterinarian (died 1917)
- 30 November - Henri Ernest Baillon, botanist and physician (died 1895)
- 5 December - Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, historian and philologist (died 1910)
- 7 December - Marc Monnier, writer (died 1885)
- 9 December - Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret, Cardinal (died 1896)
- 10 December - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (died 1907)
- 26 December - Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduces the gypsy moth into North America (died 1895)
Deaths
January to June
- 13 January - Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais, politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist and historian (born 1753)
- 15 January - Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau, politician (born 1764)
- 30 January - Victor Marie du Pont, diplomat, then businessman in America (born 1767)
- 19 February - Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, General and diplomat (born 1773)
- 5 March - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
- 5 March - Charles du Houx de Viomesnil, Marshal of France (born 1734)
- 27 March - François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, social reformer (born 1747)
- 6 May - François-Frédéric Lemot, sculptor (born 1772)
- 31 May - Pierre Louis Prieur, politician (born 1756)
July to December
- 8 July - Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (born 1773)
- 14 July - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (born 1788)
- 9 August - Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (born 1772)
- 20 August - Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (born 1775)
- 13 September - Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye, aristocrat (born 1755)
Full date unknown
- Jean-Nicolas Curély, Cavalry leader (born 1774)
See also
References
- ^ Sand, George (1 January 1991). Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand. SUNY Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7914-0580-2.
- ^ "Joseph, count de Villèle | French politician | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.