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The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824).
6 giu 2024 · The Raft of the Medusa, painting (1819) by French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault depicting the survivors of a shipwreck adrift and starving on a raft. Géricault astonished viewers by painting, in harrowing detail, not an antique and noble subject but a recent gruesome incident.
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In 1819, a young man bolted through the streets of Paris. Years later, he said he must have looked crazy as he ran all the way home. He was the painter, Eugène Delacroix, and he had just seen Théodore Géricault’s astonishing painting, The Raft of the Medusa, in the painter’s studio.
13 gen 2022 · The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, currently located at the Louvre Museum, is regarded as a seminal work of French Romanticism. The Raft of Medusa painting portrays a scene that followed after the French naval ship Méduse‘s wreck, which went
- Alicia du Plessis
- Louvre Museum, Paris
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- 490 cm x 716 cm
12 dic 2023 · The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824).
6 dic 2023 · He was the painter, Eugène Delacroix, and he had just seen Théodore Géricault’s astonishing painting, Raft of the Medusa, in the painter’s studio. Today, visitors to the Louvre museum stop in front of the painting as they make their way through the galleries, but in 1819 it was a truly radical work of art that astonished everyone.
Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, an icon of French Romanticism, depicts the aftermath of the 1816 wreck of a French naval frigate off the coast of Mauritania, when more than a hundred people floated for several days on a hastily built raft and only fifteen survived.
