Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault completed The Raft of the Medusa when he was 27, and the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. It is a direct precursor of Delacroix’s “Massacre at Chios” and “Liberty Leading the People.” Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa is our painting of the week.
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