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Legend has it that as the winter of 1818 was advancing, ThＰdore GＳicault closeted himself in a vast studio, cut hair, and with an ascetic's zeal commenced a huge canvas of men adrift on the raft of the Medusa, a raft known to generation for its lurid tales, its mayhem, its loss of life. This book examines the artistic, political, and psychological world in which GＳicault painted his masterpiece of Romantic art, "The Raft of the Medusa", and sees this reality mirrored mercilessly in the world of illusions, political prejudices, and personal tragedies depicted on the canvas itself.
