All this was just as the great Napoleonic adventure was fizzing out, so it’s no surprise that we get an early whiff in Gericault’s pictures of Romanticism, which was essentially a long lament ...

Only at this point must I introduce a note of dissent, for though I accept that everywhere and by everyone Gericault is perceived as a great Romantic painter - perhaps even the greatest - to me he ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Here is Théodore Géricault on his death bed. The painting, which is by ...

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 ...

The term “Romanticism” traditionally applies to a cultural and ... there are a few things she wishes she could take back with her from the Yale University Art Gallery: “The Gericault prints are ...

The two elements don't go together, any more than Gericault's classical format suits his romantic expression. Longing in a straitjacket vs. lost in space: Holderfield equates them. The delicacy of ...

No artist took his obsession with horses as far as Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), an obsession that cost him his life after three badly treated falls. No other artist in the history of art has ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream. Freud has pictured the human ego as living a harassed life between the conflicting claims of the instinctive, ...