(Neoclassicism & Romanticism) ROMANTICISM [continued (36)] [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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    Gericault’s ‘The Raft of the Medusa’ (1819; Louvre. Paris) ‘was an academic tour de force. Yet it moved outside the conventions of history painting by depicting a scene without a hero, and by representing the whole with a lurid pallor more nauseous than cathartic.’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art]: 755-756

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