A wrenching scene of shipwrecked men helpless in the grips of the ocean, Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa is heralded as one of the most influential works of French Romanticism.

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 ...

One of the pioneering painters of the Romantic movement, French-born Théodore Géricault is best known for his 1819 piece, The Raft of the Medusa. Depicting what was left in the wake of the shipwreck ...

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 ...

He was responsible for “The Charging Cuirassier” and “The Raft of the Medusa,” two of the most stirring works in the Louvre. Original, charismatic, ardent, he had a self-destructive streak ...

The moment I saw it, something like Krakatoa went off within me. That painting was Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa. The Raft of the Medusa is massive in scale, yet its subject ...

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 ...

Seven works by the French painter Théodore Géricault, known for his work The Raft of the Medusa (1818-19) housed at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s Paris ...

Only about a dozen survived. Théodore Géricault rendered their despair in his shocking 1819 work The Raft of the Medusa. More recently, his epic French romantic painting was adapted into ...

In 2012, at an exhibition in Clermont-Ferrand, the art historian rehabilitated a portrait of a man as being by Géricault, by likening it to a character from The Raft of the Medusa (1818).