The Death of Sardanapalus is an 1827 oil painting by the French artist Eugene Delacroix, held in the Musee du Louvre in Paris, with a smaller replica made in 1844 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is a work of Romanticism based on the tale of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, drawn from the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, and was inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 play Sardanapalus. Painted with rich, vivid, warm colors and broad brushstrokes, it in turn inspired Hector Berlioz's 1830 cantata Sardanapale and an unfinished Franz Liszt opera, Sardanapalo. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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is an 1827 oil painting on canvas
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Oil on canvas
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Louvre, Paris
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The Death of Sardanapalus is an 1827 oil painting by the French artist Eugene Delacroix, held in the Musee du Louvre in Paris, with a smaller replica made in 1844 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an 1827 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. A smaller replica he made in 1844 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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