INGRES AND DELACROIX: THE RIVALRY THAT DEFINED AN ERA

The competing artistic movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism found their respective champions in Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix. The works created during their intense yet respectful rivalry are among the greatest paintings ever produced; indeed, some art historians consider Ingres and Delacroix to be the last of the “Old Masters.” This one-session course will show how important these artists were to their era’s defining aesthetic debate, and will also explore said debate’s surprising connections to antiquity and Greek mythology.