Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in England spreading to France and America towards the late 18th and early 19th century. Romanticism paintings were explicit, emotional and lack of bravery became the rise of the romantic style. Artists such as William Blake, Franciso Goya created heroes who would fight against the unsympathetic forces in the world. The story of behind painting originates from a romantic poet by Lord Byron. An Assyrian ruler who is being vanquished in battle chose not to die a humiliating death but to kill himself and destroy everything he loves. Such as, women, money, jewelry, horses shown in the painting. Eugene Delacroix painting showed vivid colors and impetuous brushwork
