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The Raft of the Medusa
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THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
Francesco Naglieri
The "Raft of the Medusa" is an oil painting on canvas (4.91 m x 7.16m), by T. Géricault, made in 1818 and preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
T. Géricault was a French painter, exponent of Romantic Art. He was born on September 26, 1791 and died on January 26, 1824 in Paris; carried out his first pictorial experiences in the French neoclassical environment.
The painting was painted to remember one of the most serious tragedies of the sea: in 1816, the French ship Medusa ran aground off the African coast. A makeshift raft was built, which remained at the mercy of the ocean for days. Only 15 people were rescued from another ship that came to the rescue.
He didn't represent the scene of the shipwreck, not that of salvation,
but the moment in which the ship that spotted the few survivors on the horizon was sighted.
The work had to express a more universal symbolic value, humanity's desperate struggle to achieve salvation ...