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The French artist Eugéne Delacroix was one of the most important Romantic painters of the 19th century. He was trained in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin at the Paris School of Fine Arts. He was particularly inspired in his many works by poetry of Byron. As one of early Orientalist painters, Eugéne Delacroix visited Morocco and Algeria in 1832 and returned with numerous sketches and several notebooks. His famous work Massacre at Chios which exhibited at the 1824 Salon was based on the Greek war against the Ottomans. Like many other European painters of the period, he supported Greeks with his Greek-themed paintings. The Western view of the Ottomans was consists of admiration and hostility. Throughout the centuries Ottoman Empire was considered a dangerous enemy for them but at the same time they admired for the sophistication of its arts and crafts. Like many Orientalist painters, Delacroix also represented Ottoman figures in different scenes. Although he has never been to Turkey, he carefully depicted details of the local costumes, weapons, furnishings and exotic objects and repeated the Orientalist subjects untill his death in 1863.

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