Title: The struggle with the angel : Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of good and evil /
Authors: Kauffmann, Jean-Paul.
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Delacroix, Eugène,; Delacroix, Eugène, Criticism and interpretation.; Saint-Sulpice (Church : Paris, France); Mural painting and decoration, French France Paris.
Abstract: The author explores the struggle of good and evil in the Delacroix painting but also looks at the church which houses it, the lives of Delacroix and Baudelaire, philosophy and religion, and art history.
Contents: Prologue -- The Servandoni Towers -- The lecturer from the Louvre -- The agony and the ecstasy -- "A trail of light..." -- The Dieppe Hotel -- The Cafe de la Mairie -- The Chateau de Crozes -- Delacroix's cigars -- An angel between the towers -- 1998 -- Maigret in the Argonne -- A night in Saint-Sulpice -- Removing the ladder -- "I think it will be the death of me" -- The kestrel hovering in the air -- The sacred Tetragrammaton -- Jacob's eye -- The Sybil and the Golden Bough -- Epilogue.