The Raft of the Medusa is massive in scale, yet its subject matter is as simple as bathers by a river, cows in a field, a birth in a manger.

Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa is one of the most significant works of history painting. It depicts the traumatic real-life event of 1816, when a ship’s crew were left to fend for ...

Théodore Géricault's painting, 'The Raft of the Medusa,' brought energy to French art, says Willard Spiegelman.

Begin with corpses. That's what Theodore Gericault did. He painted them dangling in the front end of his floating horror show known as "The Raft of the Medusa" like ribbons after the unwrapping of ...

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.

PARIS --It's one of the most viewed works in the Louvre, yet few visitors know the horrifying real-life story behind "The Raft of the Medusa."Theodore Gericault's desolate depiction of survivors ...

The Raft of the Medusa will weave and flow and melt and bubble away letting the viewer drift in a hypnotic calm, before pulling them out of their trance only to be immersed into another visual ...

The Raft of the Medusa. Through Oct. 3 at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin; komische-oper-berlin.de. Zachary Woolfe became The Times’s classical music critic in 2022, after serving as classical music ...