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The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople) or The Crusaders Entering Constantinople is a large painting by Eugène Delacroix. It was commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838, and completed in 1840. Painted in oil on canvas, it is in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
Artist	Eugène Delacroix
Year	1840
Type	Oil Painting
Dimensions	498 cm × 410 cm (196 in × 160 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Delacroix's painting depicts a brutal episode of the armed expedition known as Fourth Crusade (12 April 1204), in which a Crusaders army abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and Jerusalem, and instead sacked the Christian (Eastern Orthodox) city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The painting shows Baldwin I of Constantinople at the head of a procession through the streets of the city following the assault; on all sides are the city's inhabitants who beg for mercy or have been murdered.[1]

The painting's luminosity and use of colour owes much to Delacroix's study of the Old Masters, such as Paolo Veronese.[1] The painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1841, where the painterly romanticism of its style was controversial; Le Constitutionnel deplored "the confused and strangled composition, the dull earthy colours and the lack of definite contours", but Baudelaire appreciated the work's "abstraction faite".[1]

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References

• Pool, Phoebe (1969). Delacroix. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-03796-7

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- [en] Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople

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[fr] Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople

L'Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople est un tableau d'Eugène Delacroix peint en 1840, présenté pour la première fois au Salon de 1841 et conservé au Louvre à Paris.

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[it] Ingresso dei crociati a Costantinopoli

Ingresso dei crociati a Costantinopoli è un dipinto ad olio su tela eseguito da Eugène Delacroix nel 1840: misura cm 410 x 498.

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