The Entry of the Crusaders Into Constantinople, 1840, (1911). Artist: Eugene Delacroix

The Entry of the Crusaders Into Constantinople, 1840. This painting depicts an episode of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Crusaders abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and Jerusalem, and instead sacked the Christian city of Constantinople. After an oil painting by Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Original work housed in the Louvre, Paris. From A History of Painting Vol. VI [T. C. and E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1911] (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)