What moves men of genius is not new ideas, but their obsession that what has been said is not enough.

Il faut être de son temps.

Eugène Delacroix

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Eugène Delacroix

Born in 1798 near Paris, Delacroix led French Romanticism with dramatic color and emotional intensity. Liberty Leading the People became a symbol of revolutionary spirit and French national identity.

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