In the wake of the overthrow of Charles X, Eugène Delacroix gave life to his now-famous painting, “Liberty Leading the People,” to celebrate what he hoped was a new era of French freedom. A decade ...

Two well-known paintings about war—Delacroix’s triumphant Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Picasso’s darkly chaotic Guernica (1937)—use distinct styles and compositional arrangements to amplify a ...