#giaour

[artemlegere]

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

Date: 1826

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

This colorful scene was inspired by a poem from Lord Byron’s “Oriental tales,” a popular series of romances.

Delacroix completed his first painting of the combat of Giaour and Hassan, showing the two on horseback, fighting in a gorge. A Turk escorting Hassan kneels beside the Giaour's horse, trying to cut its legs with his knife.

[octarinespill]

Jorge Dos Diablos - The Giaour, 2019

[thesesixseeds]

But first, on earth as vampire sent,

Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:

Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race;

There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life;

Yet loathe the banquet which perforce

Must feed thy livid living corse:

Thy victims ere they yet expire

Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them,

Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

But one that for thy crime must fall, The youngest, most beloved of all,

Shall bless thee with a father's name - That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!

Yet must thou end thy task, and mark Her cheek's last tinge, her eye's last spark, And the last glassy glance must view Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;

Then with unhallowed hand shalt tear

The tresses of her yellow hair, Of which in life a lock when shorn

Affection's fondest pledge was worn,

But now is borne away by thee,

Memorial of thine agony!

Wet with thine own best blood shall drip

Thy gnashing tooth and haggard lip;

Then stalking to thy sullen grave,

Go - and with Gouls and Afrits rave;

Till these in horror shrink away

From spectre more accursed than they!

excerpt from Lord Byron’s Giaour, as seen in John William Polidori’s The Vampyre

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[wordsmithic]

Delacroix, The Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha

*giaour (meaning “fire worshipper / unbeliever”) was a slur Muslims used for non-Muslims. In this case the giaour is a Christian Greek

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