The World of Delacroix 17981863 Author:Tom Prideaux and the Editors of Time-Life Books What is Delacroix's significance? What part did he play in this world and what was his task? That is the first question to be considered. I will be brief and my conclusions prompt. Flanders has Rubens, Italy has Raphael and Veronese; France has Le Brun, David and Delacroix. — Such was Charles Baudelaire's peremptory affirmation in his Art Romanti... more »que. No man was better equipped than the poet of Les Fleurs du Maul to understand that tremendous and solitary painter Eugene Delacroix who, through the universality of his pictorial work, is indeed entitled to be placed among the great. An all-embracing artist, he handled every style' a prodigious draftsman, he was at home with every technique, whether pencil, pen, wash, watercolor or pastel; and he was skillful in lithography, the new graphic process so much in vogue among the Romantics 0 his illustrations for Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare's Hamlet are still among the finest examples in that medium.« less