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Medusa: The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece Author: Jonathan Miles |
Medusa: The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece |
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In 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess Senegal from the British, set sail. She never arrived at her destination. Medusa is the shocking tale of a maritime disaster that rocked Europe and inspired an artistic masterpiece.
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History as a "Ripping Good Yarn":
If you`ve been fortunate enough to visit Paris, there's a good chance you've gone to the Louvre. There you may have found yourself looking at a very large and very striking painting, The Raft of the Medusa, by Theodore Gericault.
The painting graphically portrays men dying, dead, and clinging to life on a raft at sea, while frantically signaling to a distant ship on the horizon in the hope of rescue. Was this painting based on a real incident? How did these men come to find themselves there? Why did...more info
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