However, Bartholdi and Laboulaye avoided an image of revolutionary liberty such as that depicted in Eugène Delacroix's famed Liberty Leading the People ( 1830 ).

* Delacroix's Faust lithographs at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

Eugène Delacroix's first great success, The Massacre at Chios ( 1824 ) was painted before he visited the Greece or the East, and followed his friend Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in showing a recent incident in distant parts that had aroused public opinion.

Eugène Delacroix's 1824 painting The Massacre at Chios and numerous publications brought the Greek cause to the attention of Americans.

Delacroix's painting of the massacre at Chios shows sick, dying Greek civilians about to be slaughtered by the Turks.

According to Wellington, Delacroix's masterpiece of 1830, Liberty Leading the People, springs directly from Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa and Delacroix's own Massacre at Chios.

The art and sculpture historian Albert Elsen believed that The Raft of the Medusa and Delacroix's Massacre at Chios provided the inspiration for the grandiose sweep of Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell.

He wrote that " Delacroix's Massacre at Chios and Géricault's Raft of the Medusa confronted Rodin on a heroic scale with the innocent nameless victims of political tragedies ...

Klarwein's own words illuminate the work: " I projected it as a sort of painted musical comedy movie with a Sanskrit swinging cast of thousands, starring Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekberg, Ray Charles, Pablo Picasso, Brigitte Bardot, Roland Kirk, Cannonball Adderley, Ahmed Abdul Malik, Wonderwoman, Delacroix's Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Litri and his bullshit fighters, Lawrence of Arabia, Socrates, Dalí, Rama, Vishnu, Ganesh, the Zork and a Milky Way of playmates.

In " the first half of 1905 " the Steins acquired Cézanne's Portrait of Mme Cézanne and Delacroix's Perseus and Andromeda.

After the montage, as the cameras point to Delacroix's lifeless body on the floor, the camera then shows Manray doing his last Mantan sequence on stage.

* Podcast of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People

Well-known examples of this include the cover of Derek and the Dominoes Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs ( from the painting " La Fille au Bouquet " by French painter and sculptor Emile Théodore Frandsen de Schomberg ), the cover of Kansas's debut album, adapted from a mural by painter John Steuart Curry, Norman Rockwell's cowboy ( Pure Prairie League ), and, more recently, Coldplay's Viva La Vida, which features Eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People ( a favorite in The Louvre ) with the words " VIVA LA VIDA " brushed on top in white paint.

After the destruction of the palace, Bond and Amy return to Victor Delacroix's villa, but are ambushed on the way by Peter Haight.

Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pietà of Enguerrand Quarton ; the anonymous painting of King Jean le Bon ( c. 1360 ), possibly the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era ; Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV ; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon ; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.

The pathos in the depiction of an infant clutching its dead mother's breast had an especially powerful effect, although this detail was condemned as unfit for art by Delacroix's critics.

Delacroix's painting of the death of the Assyrian king Sardanapalus shows an emotionally stirring scene alive with beautiful colours, exotic costumes and tragic events.

Delacroix's most influential work came in 1830 with the painting Liberty Leading the People, which for choice of subject and technique highlights the differences between the romantic approach and the neoclassical style.

Probably Delacroix's best known painting, it is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty, equality, and fraternity ; Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty.

Delacroix's tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

A generation of impressionists was inspired by Delacroix's work.

Contemporary Chinese artist Yue Minjun has created his own interpretation of Delacroix's painting Massacre of Chios, which retains the same name.

" Upon Delacroix's recommendation, the painter Constant Dutilleux bought a Corot painting and began a long and rewarding relationship with the artist, bringing him friendship and patrons.

To Delacroix's horror, not only does Dunwitty enthusiastically endorse the show, it also becomes hugely successful.

Hopkins, horrified, flees while proclaiming that it was Delacroix's own fault that he got shot.

On the following morning Tunick set out to re-enact Eugène Delacroix's " Liberty Leading the People ", with the help of 250 women wielding French flags, 4 men and a smoke machine.

The painting is perhaps Delacroix's best-known work.

In his introduction to The Journal of Eugène Delacroix, Hubert Wellington wrote about Delacroix's opinion of the state of French painting just prior to the Salon of 1819.

He is described as a hunched figure clad in tattered, yellow rags, who wears a smooth and featureless " Pallid Mask.

The centre figure wears the dark green dress uniform worn by all Gurkhas in British service, with certain regimental distinctions

" The figure on the lower left wears a jian on his back

In Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya comic book, which is inspired by Greek myths, the character Perseus Algol is one of the warriors known as the Saints of Athena, and he wears an armor known as the Perseus Cloth, which represents the mythological figure and also his constellation.

Fandorin is always impeccably groomed and can be vain about his appearance ; in The Winter Queen he wears a corset to improve his figure.

Of the three fighting men, the lead figure ( in the middle ) represents a Marine, as he wears a Type M-1955 body armor vest, which was worn exclusively by Marines in Vietnam.

Olentzero, a Basque Christmas figure, wears a beret.

The president is elected biennually and wears a badge in the form of a spoked wheel, with the standing figure of Joseph Priestley depicted in enamel, mainly in red and blue, on a hexagonal medallion in the centre.

Sammie wears a patriotic costume and represents the American historical figure Uncle Sam, who was born in Troy.

She wears a huge grey beehive wig which hides her short ginger hair, and she dresses in a long-skirted schoolmarm dress, hiding her old figure.

The mural painting of the figure of Christ wears a greyish, white robe with a blue mantle.

The figure of Christ wears a crown and is seated on a throne with a foot rest.

A guiding leader figure enters the story in Big Face, the pre-eminent Shaman of the Mudokon people, who wears a large wooden mask, crafted by native Mudokons, from which his name is derived.

He wears the uniform used on his 1992 figure.

She generally wears a tiger-striped bikini and Go-Go Boots which highlight her shapely figure, and has two tiny horns on her head that, when sprayed with a special solution, can be shaped to resemble barrettes.

Publicly, she retains the corporate image of a sweet, bustling old woman who often slips into the stereotype of a hapless grandmother ( she wears antiquated clothes that greatly accentuate her bust and general figure, while using rustic similes and metaphors such as " squeaking like an old screen door ").

Tabarin from French tabard denotes a short cloak of the kind the commedia dell ' arte figure Scaramouche wears.

She also wears her hair in a long ponytail, as opposed to the 1980s figure and cartoon character who is represented with her hair up.

The figure standing to the right wears a jagged crown.

The middle figure wears a helmet.

A donor figure in the same church, the Grand Logothete Theodore Metochites, who ran the legal system and finances of the Empire, wears an even larger hat, which he keeps on whilst kneeling before Christ ( see Gallery ).