The Raft of the Medusa measures roughly 16 feet by 23.5 feet; meanwhile, the raft itself was 23 feet by 66 feet. 4. Théodore Géricault even had the raft reconstructed.

Theodore Gericault painted The Raft of the Medusa in 1819 as an emotive and intensely political response to a tragedy that shook post-Napoleonic France. It was an indictment of the first government of ...

Begin with corpses. That's what Theodore Gericault did. He painted them dangling in the front end of his floating horror show known as "The Raft of the Medusa" like ribbons after the unwrapping of ...

In this video, we look at the historical events that inspired French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault’s controversial ‘Raft of the Medusa’, as well as his labours to create the painting ...

Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa is one of the most significant works of history painting. It depicts the traumatic real-life event of 1816, when a ship’s crew were left to fend for ...

The painting I saw that day at the Louvre had its origins in a real-life story of the recolonizing of Africa. In June 1816, the French frigate Medusa and three other ships headed to Senegal to ...

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris The two years following Géricault’s return to Paris saw the artist throwing himself fervently into work on ...

At 16ft by 24ft, Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa is not too far short of the raft it depicts. The vast work fills a wall in the Louvre’s Denon Wing, (around the corner from the Mona Lisa).

Among French artists of the late- and post-Napoleonic era, Géricault (1791-1824) led the way into Romanticism. He was responsible for “The Charging Cuirassier” and “The Raft of the Medusa ...