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Article: A Romantic inspiration.
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- The Middle East
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- December 1, 1994
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The French painter Eugene Delacroix, one of the leading lights of the Romantic school, was famous for his orientalist works. However, it was only by chance that the artist journeyed to Morocco on a trip that was to change his entire career.
ON SATURDAY 4 FEBRUARY 1832, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, Eugene Delacroix, a young French painter, arrived in Tangier on his way to meet Morocco's Emperor Moulay Abder Rahman. The painter, who would later achieve international acclaim, was fascinated by his first sight of an entirely different world to the one he had left in France. He records in his dairy: "It is the, first day of the Ramazan. At the exact time ...