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Political Upheaval · 1830

July Revolution, France

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Works dated 1827–1833

Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People in direct response. The revolution reignited Romanticism's political dimension and firmly linked artistic passion with the language of democratic struggle.

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July Revolution, France (1830) · Ellsworth