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 a package.

PARIS --It's one of the most viewed works in the Louvre, yet few visitors know the horrifying real-life story behind "The Raft of the Medusa." Theodore Gericault's desolate depiction of survivors ...

Le Radeau de la Méduse 2013 (The Raft of the Medusa 2013), by Badiucao for CDT: ...

Shortly before his death in 1994, Jarman was considering making a film based on Theodore Gericault’s The Raft Of The Medusa, which depicts a group of desperate men abandoned on a raft at sea.

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Film maker Richard Heslop shares his thoughts about making The Raft of the Medusa and his memories of working with Derek Jarman. Film maker Richard Heslop shares his thoughts about ...