The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d (ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). [1]

2025年1月4日 · The Raft of the Medusa, painting (1819) by French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault depicting the survivors of a shipwreck adrift and starving on a raft. Gericault astonished viewers by painting, in harrowing detail, not an antique and noble subject but a …

2022年1月13日 · The Raft of Medusa painting, his most renowned work, was a breakthrough event in the history of contemporary art since it combined the urgency of the latest issues and a firsthand sensibility with the conventional, massive framework of a major Salon painting.

2023年12月12日 · At 491 cm × 716 cm (16' 1" × 23' 6"), it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on 2 July 1816.

He was the painter, Eugène Delacroix, and he had just seen Théodore Géricault’s astonishing painting, Raft of the Medusa, in the painter’s studio. Today, visitors to the Louvre museum stop in front of the painting as they make their way through the galleries, but in 1819 it was a truly radical work of art that astonished everyone.

The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting by French painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault realized between 1818 and 1819. It depicts a tragic event: the wreck of the naval frigate Medusa (Méduse), off the coast of Mauritania, happened in 1816.

2021年6月23日 · But the story behind this 1819 painting is far richer and more tragic than you might imagine. 1. Its muse is not myth but history. The Medusa (or Méduse) was a French naval frigate that boasted...

Painted when Géricault was just 27 years old, The Raft of the Medusa is considered an instant classic of the Romantic Movement. In its brutality, realism, and raw emotion it captures the essence of a historic event that shocked the French public, a …

2024年10月30日 · At the Louvre Museum in Paris, amongst the various works of art, is a painting with a tragic, yet captivating, story behind it. The Raft of Medusa was painted in 1819 by Théodore Géricault, an ambitious artist eager to achieve fame and glory.

Learn everything you need to know about Théodore Géricault's "Raft of Medusa" painting. Look at its historical meaning, its reason for being painted, and an analysis of the elements of the work.