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    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...
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    Théodore Géricault (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen,...
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    about the incident, and the episode was immortalised when Théodore Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa, which became a notable artwork of French...
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    before being hired by Géricault sometime in 1818. After the success of The Raft of the Medusa at the 1819 Paris Salon, Joseph began to model for other contemporary...
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    L’Égaré II La Balsa and Las Balsas Lifeboat Pre-Columbian rafts Pumice raft The Raft of the Medusa Thor Heyerdahl Poon Lim G. & C. Merriam Co., Websters New...
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    der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa) is a 1967 secular oratorio by the German composer Hans Werner Henze. It is regarded as a seminal work in the composer's...
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    Théodore Géricault created the iconic Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) which hangs in the Louvre as The Raft of the Medusa. Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys...
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    Empire, but his next major completed work, The Raft of the Medusa of 1818–19, remains the greatest achievement of the Romantic history painting, which in its...
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    Il était un petit navire (category Year of song unknown)
    painting The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault. Soldiers sing this song in the film La grande illusion. In the 2020 film The Man in the Hat, two musicians...
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  • analysis of Géricault's painting, The Raft of the Medusa. The first half narrates the historical events of the shipwreck and the survival of the crew members...
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