The Crusaders' entry into Constantinople, 12th April 1204, 1840 (oil on canvas), 1840

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Learned that rarely exhibited his oil sketches in public, but he did show this undulating Christ on the Cross, 1845 in a prominent exhibit in Paris. I loved seeing it here, next to the fully developed canvas from 1846. (Why I love retrospectives.)

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Combat Between the Giaour and the Pasha

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The Massacres at Chios

A war that caught the attention of http://t.co/oINTEkFMhJ

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