The Raft of the Medusa might not be the Louvre's most famous painting, but it might be the most graphic. Painted by Théodore Géricault in 1818, this larger than life canvas stops visitors in its ...

This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an ...

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 ...

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In 1816, the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the coast of West Africa. Without room on rescue boats for all 400 passengers, more than 140 were forced onto a hastily constructed life raft.