The Raft of the Medusa
21st November 2014
Théodore Géricault’s vast masterpiece Le Radeau de la Méduse (now at the Louvre) is, of course, based on fact. But how did he find out about what happened on that ill-fated voyage? Answer: he read a book. The book he read, written by two of the shipwreck’s survivors, Jean-Baptiste Savigny (the ship’s surgeon) and Alexandre Corréard […]
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