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‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’: 10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife

The Observer 15 Apr 2024
He dreamed of the blinding of the Earl of Gloucester by the Duke of Cornwall in King Lear; he dreamed of a scene that resembled Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, but the people on ...
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The last crimes of Caravaggio

New Statesman 20 Mar 2024
He had significant adherents such as Théodore Géricault and Édouard Manet, but as late as the second half of the 19th century John Ruskin could still castigate him as someone who painted “for the sake ...
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Amazing pictures of a Christmas night out are like renaissance paintings

Metro UK 24 Dec 2023
The spectrum of human emotion is captured in these images (Picture ... Photographer Dimitris Legakis said he was flattered to be compared to the Manchester photo, taken by Joel Goodman, as well as renaissance artists including Théodore Géricault ... More.
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Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art

AOL 24 Dec 2023
... feet, apparently remonstrating with the police, as others grinned around him – was compared by culture vultures to the 1817 painting The Raft of Medusa by French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault.
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Monday briefing: Inside the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s awkward expansion

The Observer 30 Oct 2023
Good morning ... You can catch up with the latest developments on our liveblog here ... I’ll explain why, after the headlines.Five big stories. ... ... Théodore Géricault, master of French romanticism, was commissioned to paint 10 portraits but five went missing ….
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How a biologist turned amateur sleuth to solve a century-old art riddle

The Guardian 27 Oct 2023
Théodore Géricault, master of French romanticism, was commissioned to paint 10 portraits but five went missing On a hot summer night in 2018, Javier Burgos stayed up late on his computer.
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Artistic marvels collide in Sea World’s two exhibitions

Shenzhen Daily 14 Aug 2023
Philip Colbert ... There is an amazing history of lobsters in art ... Dates. Until Oct. 15. Tickets ... Another two of his paintings are inspired by Théodore Géricault’s “The Raft of the Medusa” painting and the fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk,” respectively ... 17.
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Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

Caledonian Record 12 Jul 2023
Novels about underwater adventures offer a glimpse at oceanic life. fotograzia via Getty Images ... And not everyone survives ... Unexplored depths ... This fear is depicted in such haunting paintings as Théodore Géricault’s “The Raft of the Medusa” and J.M.W.
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Poem of the week: The Bin-Men Go on Strike by Raymond Queneau

The Observer 17 Apr 2023
The Bin-Men Go on Strike. it’s strike day for the bin-men. it’s a lucky day for us. we can play ragpicker or peddler. junk dealer who knows even antiquarian. there’s a little of everything ... sometimes the Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault ... .
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Scenes of beauty in ocean salvage, from a Norfolk-based Navy photographer

The Virginian-Pilot 25 Feb 2023
... such as Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which hangs at the Met, and Théodore Géricault’s stunning “The Raft of the Medusa,” which is in the collection of the Louvre, in Paris.
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UK's Christie's to auction rare Shah Jehan-era Mughal pashmina carpet, Islamic crafts

Khaleejtimes 29 Sep 2022
A number of equestrian paintings, including a work by French artist Théodore Géricault, Etalon Anglo-Arabe of a horse from the Imperial stables of Versailles, and a racing scene by British master Sir ...
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Glasgow's relaunched Burrell Collection may be unique and much-loved, but how does it fit into ...

The Conversation 30 Aug 2022
Highlights are the exquisite and intact gilded mummy casing of an Ibis from ancient Egypt; the Chinese Ming Wanli period porcelain jar with five-clawed dragons; Théodore Géricault’s radiant painting ...
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Love letters show art in a new perspective

The Times/The Sunday Times 04 Jun 2022
In 1822, Théodore Géricault wrote to his lover Madame Trouillard a passionate letter in which he bemoaned his rapidly deteriorating health and longed for her soft touch ... .
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The many histories of art, not all equally well known

The Irish Times 26 Apr 2022
In 1819 Théodore Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa in a frenzied nine-month period ... model called Madeleine from 1799 and the black sailor who waves a red flag on Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa.

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