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🎨 "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1826 by Eugène Delacroix 🇫🇷 Oil, Canvas, 209 x 147 cm Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts About the Artwork: "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi" is a painting by Eugene Delacroix 1826. The work represents an allegory of Greece after the siege of Missolonghi and served as a tribute to the death of Lord Byron, who died in this Greek town two years earlier. The painter made this painting for an exhibition that was intended to raise funds of support for the Greek cause, after reading Byron's writings on the subject. In it, a woman symbolizing Greece, which was fighting against the Turks to obtain its independence, is dressed in traditional Greek costume and behind an Ottoman janissary, symbol of oppression.
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