Problem
In his Scenes from the Massacres at Chios, Eugène Delacroix not only subverted Neoclassical style,but also reversed the thematic structure of Antoine-Jean Gros's Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa.That is, he reversed Gros's construct of the civilized west versus the barbaric east. How does Delacroix present the modern Greeks as "degenerate" in theMassacres at Chios? How does he "beautify" the violence of the Turkish invader in the work?