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Posted: 21 May 2024

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Greece Needs You

Greece Needs You

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Missolonghi was a human tragedy and the military disaster, but it inspired a masterpiece of propaganda at the very moment when it was needed. The great French painter Eugene Delacrox en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix had already done his bit of cause, at the Paris Salon in 1824 he’d presented his “Massacre at Chios” to a horrified French public. Now, just six months, he completed his ‘Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi.’ The huge painting depicted a beautiful woman kneeling among the town’s ruins with her arms open in entreaty. People queued around the block to see it, and its message was unmistakable: Greece Needs you. ~ Page 132

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