Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored(www.louvre.fr)
37 pointsby rawgabbit9 hours ago8 comments
  • Dauban hour ago
    Unfortunately, we are unlikely ever to see any of Delecroix’s paintings as they were intended to be seen. Fading pigments and other factors make this true for every painting, but doubly true for Delecroix as he used a lot of new pigments that were very unstable.

    There is the story of Degas standing weeping with sadness in front of The death of sardenopolis at the way its colors had faded over time.

  • fmajid3 hours ago
    The original French title "La Prise de Constantinople par les croisés" is harsher, "The taking/capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders"
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  • Animats4 hours ago
    The actual picture without zoom disabled.[1] In case you wanted to look at it.

    [1] https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/styles/w1059_h...

  • guidopallemans2 hours ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entry_of_the_Crusaders_in_Cons...

    (and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prise_de_Constantinople_par_le... )

    give a bit more context.

    Stood out to me:

    > 498 cm × 410 cm (196 in × 160 in)

  • wolfi14 hours ago
    one should bear in mind, that Constantinople at that time was still Christian and most of the goods, that were ransacked, came to Venetia
    • m00dy17 minutes ago
      and then mehmet came in.
  • bigbluedots3 hours ago
    Not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere!
  • ggambetta5 hours ago
    They should just trap Julian Baumgartner inside for a month, with nothing but water, food, and conservation-grade varnish and reversible pigments, and the whole place would look like new!
    • irdc3 hours ago
      Please don’t
  • indiandeodorant4 hours ago
    Time for a new crusade anyway. Let's cleam up this mess from Al-Londonista via Al-Andalusia all the way to Constantinoble.
    • warumdarum4 hours ago
      1400 years of parts of humanity stuck in what is basically a religously decorated bootloop. What a disaster and we are supossed to celebrate these recovery>generational overproduction>war>recovery loops as cultural enrichment , which is kind of worse because its defacto refusing help, while the global trade handouts these regions subsisted on break away. Egypt almost went bankrupt again and nobody cares. 3 times the population of california but economically and scientifically as dead as can be. May the help they refused others in need and stuck in self destruct be upon those fools.
    • peterfireflyan hour ago
      The fourth crusade was an utter disaster for Europe/The Middle East/Christendom.

      Some of the others were indeed great and something like that and the Reconquista do indeed sound overdue. Can we do that without repeating the fourth?