Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People - Accidental Icon? - Louvre Museum

SUMMARY: Liberty Leading the People : a painting long accepted as an iconic image of the triumphant French Republic. This was never Delacroix's intention however; he essentially backed the Establishment, and mob violence terrified him. Is the painting's popularity based on a total misunderstanding? FULL MOVIE http://goo.gl/xodxz DVD: http://goo.gl/kPb03 (soon in English, sorry!) CHAPTERS (Act I) [00:00] Introduction [01:12] Act I: Who got it wrong? Part I.A: the viewer's mistake? [04:37] Part I.B: a goddess in paris [07:12] Part I.C: democracy- the ugly side? ARTWORKS Amédée Bourgeois - The Attack on the Hôtel de Ville, 28 July 1830 (1831) -- Versailles Alfred Le Petit - The Two Republics (1873) Géricault - Scene of Cannibalism on the Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre Daumier - A Literary Discussion in the Second Gallery (1864) Géricault - Study of Human Members (1819) - Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts Henry Scheffer - Joan of Arc entering Orleans (1843) -- Versailles Delacroix - The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) - Louvre Agasias of Ephesus - The Borghese Gladiator (circa 100 BC) - Louvre N. de la Courteille - Truth brings the Republic and Prosperity (1793) - Vizille, Musée de la Révolution Gros - Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole (1796) -- Versailles Gros - The Battle of Eylau (1808) - Louvre Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville (1850) -- Versailles Guillon-Lethière - Enrolling the Volunteers (1799) - Vizille, Musée de la Révolution Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse - Napoleon crowned by Time (1833) - Musée de Bois-Préau Thomas Fielding - Eugène Delacroix (1825) - Musée Delacroix François Gérard - Louis-Philippe I (1833) -- Versailles Hippolyte Lecomte - Fighting in the rue de Rohan (1831) - Musée Carnavalet Menelaus and Patroclus, copy of Greek original, IVth century BC -- Vatican François Biard - Four o'clock in the Salon - Louvre Delacroix - The Massacre at Scio (1824) - Louvre MUSICS Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilitch (1840 - 1893) Violin Concerto - Allegro Moderato Jascha Heifetz, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilitch (1840 - 1893) Ouverture Overture Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) Symphony No 10 Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by George Szell Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Symphony n°7 - Vivace Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner Piano Concerto No. 5 "The Emperor"- Allegro - Adagio Van Cliburn - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner Symphony No.8 - Allegro Vivace Vienna Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Scherchen Leonora 0verture, No. 3 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" - Allegro con Brio Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912) Werther Paris National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Elie Cohen