Charles Baudelaire

The fragility of the modern city reflects humanity’s vulnerability

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The more complex the infrastructure, the more liable it is to break down – as was recently apparent in the blackout that brought Madrid and Lisbon to a standstill in April

‘The Death of Sardanapalus’, 1846, by Eugène Delacroix

Wild at heart

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Delacroix’s frigid self-control concealed an emotional volcano. Martin Gayford explores the paradoxes that define the apostle of modernism