My family and the forgotten massacre of Chios
Eugène Delacroix’s great painting changed Western art and recorded an atrocity that still haunts the island today.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Eugène Delacroix’s great painting changed Western art and recorded an atrocity that still haunts the island today.
By Richard Calvocoressi