Who painted 'Liberty Leading the People' on display in the Louvre?
Liberty Leading the People Houlihan holding the Irish tricolour in Dublin while the leaders of the three main political parties at the time (Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore) lie on the ground. During the 20 October 2011 episode of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time, host Melvyn Bragg led a panel discussion of painting. "Liberty Leading the People" is considered to be a republican and anti-monarchist symbol, and thus was sometimes criticized, especially by royalists and monarchists. Liberty Leading the People Liberty Leading the People ( ) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which
Liberty Leading the People the French Republic known as Marianne. By the time Delacroix painted "Liberty Leading the People", he was already the acknowledged leader of the Romantic school in French painting. Delacroix, who was born as the Age of Enlightenment was giving way to the ideas and style of romanticism, rejected the emphasis on precise drawing that characterised the academic art of his time, and instead gave a new prominence to freely brushed colour. Delacroix painted his work in the autumn of 1830. In a letter to his brother dated 21 October, he wrote: "My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work.