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''The Death of Sardanapalus'' (''La Mort de Sardanapale'') are two paintings oil painting on canvas, dated 1827 by Eugène Delacroix. Its dimensions are 392 × 496 cm or 145 × 195 inches. It currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.〔(Louvre catalogue entry )〕 A smaller replica was painted by Delacroix in 1844, that is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.〔(Google Art Project, accessed February 11, 2013 )〕 The painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art is 73.71 × 82.47 cm. ==Theme== The painting's most dominant feature is a large divan, with its golden elephants, on which a nude prostrates herself and beseeches the apathetic Sardanapalus for mercy. Sardanapalus ((Detail) ) had ordered his possessions destroyed and concubines murdered before immolating himself, once he learned that he was faced with military defeat. ''The Death of Sardanapalus'' is based on the tale of Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria, from the historical library of Diodorus Siculus, the ancient Greek historian, and is a work of the era of Romanticism. This painting uses rich, vivid and warm colours, and broad brushstrokes. It was inspired by Lord Byron's play Sardanapalus (1821), and in turn inspired a cantata by Hector Berlioz, ''Sardanapale'' (1830), and also Franz Liszt's opera, ''Sardanapale'' (1845–52, unfinished). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Death of Sardanapalus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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