The arrival of early 20th-century avant-gardism is generally considered the historical tsunami that swamped the conventions of Western art dating from the Renaissance. Yet this wave had begun building ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Here is Théodore Géricault on his death bed. The painting, which is by ...

One of the pioneering painters of the Romantic movement, French-born Théodore Géricault is best known for his 1819 piece, The Raft of the Medusa. Depicting what was left in the wake of the shipwreck ...

Artist: Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), the despairing Romantic artist whose tortured personal life (he had an affair with his aunt) and his taste for the morbid bore strange fruit in The Raft of the ...

Artist: Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) was a passionate horseman, a quasi-incestuous lover of his uncle's young wife, a wealthy heir and a student of death who drew fragments of corpses in his studio.

As Halloween approaches, it offers a chance to delve into the occult, phantasmagoric, otherworldly, and haunted aspects of our world. In a series of posts, we’re exploring art history that offers a ...

A Paris exhibition on the theme of horses in Théodore Géricault’s art has triggered controversy among experts who claim that a large number of works have been falsely attributed to the 19th-century ...

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 a ...