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    The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan is the title of three works by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, produced in 1826, 1835 and 1856. They...
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    harem, Leila, who loves the giaour and is killed by being drowned in the sea by Hassan. In revenge, the giaour kills Hassan and then enters a monastery...
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    Giaour or Gawur or Gavour (/ˈdʒaʊər/; Turkish: gâvur, Turkish pronunciation: [ɟaˈvuɾ]; from Persian: گور gâvor; Romanian: ghiaur; Albanian: kaur; Greek:...
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    commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X. A bare-breasted woman of the people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess...
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    (Pastoral Gathering), 1718–1721 Eugène Delacroix, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826 John Simpson, The Captive Slave, 1827 Édouard Manet, Seascape Calm...
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    Eugène Delacroix (category Members of the Académie des beaux-arts)
    Shakespeare, and soon thereafter lithographs and paintings from Goethe's Faust. Paintings such as The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826), and Woman with...
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    Jean-François Oeben (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Boulle, and then independently in premises in the Galleries of the Louvre sublet to him by Boulle. From 1754 he was granted premises, at first at the Manufacture...
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    rarely discussed his works. The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan Benjamin, Roger (2003). Orientalist Aesthetics Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930...
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  • Byron sought-after in the London literary scene as he receives invitations daily The Giaour: A fragment of a Turkish tale The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn...
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    Verninac (1780–1827) was the daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory, and wife of the diplomat Raymond de Verninac...
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