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...2 study in Arts and Humanities...Delacroix: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify those aspects of Delacroix’s art that qualify it as ‘Romantic’ understand the interplay between classicism and Romanticism in Delacroix’s art appreciate the nature of Delacroix’s fascination with the Oriental and the exotic even before he...

...did mount above his reach, / And melting heavens conspired his overthrow’ (ll. 21–2). This is an allusion to the ancient Greek myth of Icarus, who attempted to escape from Crete with a pair of waxen wings, but flew too near the sun and plunged to his death when the sun melted the wax (see Figures 2 and 3). He became the symbol of the ‘overreacher’, of the man who tries to exceed his own limitations and ......