Le Radeau de la Meduse - Theodore Gericault - Vidéo Dailymotion

Il regardait des membres humains pourrir chez lui.  Le Radeau de la Meduse, par Theodore Gericault, peinture. PandApple, pour parler d'Art.

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00:00 and watch human bodies rot in his house.

00:03 For the realization of the famous "Radeau de la Méduse" painted in 1819,

00:08 Theodore Gericault started a really deep research

00:12 in order to better transcribe the tragic episode of the shipwreck of the Meduse.

00:16 In his quest for the macabre,

00:18 he first set up his workshop near the hospital Beaujolais

00:22 to study the faces of the patients at the gates of death.

00:26 He also went to the morgue of this hospital to study the corpses.

00:30 But he is the kind of person who likes to bring home work,

00:33 so he does not hesitate to bring home human limbs

00:36 just to see how it decomposes.

00:39 And if that was not enough for you,

00:41 he also recovered a head cut from an asylum

00:44 that he kept in his attic for almost two weeks.

00:47 So the next time you watch this masterpiece of Romanticism

00:50 of 5 meters by 7 in the Louvre,

00:52 and you will see hunger, dehydration, madness and even anthropophagy,

00:57 remember that...