Théodore Géricault « La beauté du désastre »

Théodore Géricault « La beauté du désastre »

0.0 2002 | 30 min

By painting his monumental work The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819, Théodore Géricault elevated a news event to the level of modern history painting. A denunciation of cowardice, an admission of human brutality, a fascination with disaster—this ambiguous and unclassifiable work that obsessed the painter echoes one of the greatest scandals of the Restoration and, at the time, creates a new aesthetic.

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Palette Productions
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France

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French
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