Visual travels with Byron : British landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean in the early 19th century

• Published in: The British art journal Vol. 15; pp. 61 - 70
• Main Author: Ibata, Hélène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 22.03.2015

Eugène Delacroix celebrated George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, as the poet who had the greatest influence on his pictorial production, throughout his long career. Byron's poetry fired his romantic imagination with the sublimity of its human narratives and the Oriental tales were g...