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Géricault built a vast, harrowing canvas from a real shipwreck scandal, showing survivors on a makeshift raft at the moment they glimpse rescue on the horizon. He interviewed survivors and studied corpses to get it right. Its pyramid of dying and hoping bodies became a Romantic landmark.
The Raft of the Medusa
- Date1819
- MovementRomanticism
- WhereLouvre, Paris
- RegionFrance