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Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored
- ggambetta 4mo agoThey should just trap Julian Baumgartner inside for a month, with nothing but water, food, and conservation-grade varnish and reversible pigments, and the whole place would look like new!
- irdc 4mo agoPlease don’t
- AlotOfReading 4mo agoYou might not be aware, but Baumgartner has a generally negative reputation in the conservator community. From what I understand as a non-expert, he's overly aggressive with his swabbing/varnishing and he's taken power tools directly to an artwork numerous times. The former isn't obvious to me either.
- ggambetta 4mo agoI've read that. I'm not part of the conservator community, I just really enjoy the videos.
- indiandeodorant 4mo ago[dead]
- warumdarum 4mo ago1400 years of parts of humanity stuck in what is basically a religously decorated bootloop. What a disaster and we are supossed to celebrate these recovery>generational overproduction>war>recovery loops as cultural enrichment , which is kind of worse because its defacto refusing help, while the global trade handouts these regions subsisted on break away. Egypt almost went bankrupt again and nobody cares. 3 times the population of california but economically and scientifically as dead as can be. May the help they refused others in need and stuck in self destruct be upon those fools.
- peterfirefly 4mo agoThe fourth crusade was an utter disaster for Europe/The Middle East/Christendom. Some of the others were indeed great and something like that and the Reconquista do indeed sound overdue. Can we do that without repeating the fourth?
- wolfi1 4mo agoone should bear in mind, that Constantinople at that time was still Christian and most of the goods, that were ransacked, came to Venetia
- Animats 4mo agoThe actual picture without zoom disabled.[1] In case you wanted to look at it. [1] https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/styles/w1059_h598_c0/public/2026-05/la-prise-de-constantinople-par-les-croises-de-delacroix.jpg https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/styles/w1059_h...
- defrost 4mo agoand, not limited to a width w1059: https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/styles/w0_hNaN_c0/public/2026-05/la-prise-de-constantinople-par-les-croises-de-delacroix.jpg https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/styles/w0_hNaN... This image at 3688x2081 can be zoomed into
- fransje26 4mo agoAnd the painting in full glory, at 15000 x 12415. https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/2026-05/prise-de-constantinople-par-les-croises-12-avril-1204-eugene-delacroix-1840-departement-des-peintures.jpg https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/2026-05/prise-...
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- bigbluedots 4mo agoNot a drop of blood to be seen anywhere!
- fmajid 4mo agoThe original French title "La Prise de Constantinople par les croisés" is harsher, "The taking/capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders"
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- cholantesh 4mo agoMore historically accurate, though, no?
- fmajid 4mo agoExactly, "Entry of Crusaders in Constantinople" is very milquetoast and does not begin the describe the horrendous massacres committed then.
- guidopallemans 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entry_of_the_Crusaders_in_Constantinople https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entry_of_the_Crusaders_in_Cons... (and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prise_de_Constantinople_par_les_crois%C3%A9s_(12_avril_1204) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prise_de_Constantinople_par_le... ) give a bit more context. Stood out to me: > 498 cm × 410 cm (196 in × 160 in)
- Daub 4mo agoUnfortunately, we are unlikely ever to see any of Delecroix’s paintings as they were intended to be seen. Fading pigments and other factors make this true for every painting, but doubly true for Delecroix as he used a lot of new pigments that were very unstable. There is the story of Degas standing weeping with sadness in front of The death of sardenopolis at the way its colors had faded over time.
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- kjellsbells 4mo agoThe fourth crusade was wild. - let's go and reclaim Jerusalem from those non-Christian infidels! - Sure. We're gonna need a bigger boat. Let's ask the Venetians. - Here are your ships, guys. - Err, we have no money. - Sigh. ok. Go and attack our rivals over there. - The byzantines in Constantinople? They're Christian. - You want something to do, or not? - Fine. let's kill them all, boys. Result: Constantinople is ravaged. Byzantine Empire fatally weakened. Ottomans take the city 200 years later.
- DeathArrow 4mo agoThey justified it by religion but they really wanted to rob and mug. And this happened many times across history and will continue to happen: people claiming they are fighting for an ideal but really just wanting to gain power and money.
- wqaatwt 4mo agoYes and no. Downplaying “honest” convictions and other motivations unrelated to greed is flawed. Plenty of people in history did what they did because they truly believed in it (of course there were usually several motivations) For instance the first Crusade was organized as a military relief expedition by the Byzantine emperor and the pope to save the empire from Turkish invasion and liberate the recently conquered Anatolia. Jerusalem was mostly an aspirational and symbolic goal. Most people who joined did it because of sense of duty and various degrees of religion fanaticism. There was little prospect of profit and while the expedition was enormously more successful than anyone could have anticipated the overwhelming majority of initial participants were dead by the time they reached Jerusalem. Even those that survived to the end didn’t necessarily profit that much.
- pyuser583 4mo agoIf I remember Venice took out debt worth 200% of GDP to build the fleet. They were leveraged up to their eyeballs.
- DeathArrow 4mo ago