Théodore Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa
One of the greatest icons in the history of French Art is a painting that depicts a group of castaways on a make shift raft, as they struggle to survive the terror of the sea.
The scene is, quite frankly, hellish . . . without even needing fire or brimstone to make it so. And the artist - Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault - went to almost unbelievable …
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