Il regardait des membres humains pourrir chez lui.
Le Radeau de la Meduse, par Theodore Gericault, peinture.
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Le Radeau de la Meduse, par Theodore Gericault, peinture.
PandApple, pour parler d'Art.
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00:00 and watch human bodies rot in his house.
00:03 For the realization of the famous "Radeau de la Méduse" painted in 1819,
00:08 Theodore Gericault started a really deep research
00:12 in order to better transcribe the tragic episode of the shipwreck of the Meduse.
00:16 In his quest for the macabre,
00:18 he first set up his workshop near the hospital Beaujolais
00:22 to study the faces of the patients at the gates of death.
00:26 He also went to the morgue of this hospital to study the corpses.
00:30 But he is the kind of person who likes to bring home work,
00:33 so he does not hesitate to bring home human limbs
00:36 just to see how it decomposes.
00:39 And if that was not enough for you,
00:41 he also recovered a head cut from an asylum
00:44 that he kept in his attic for almost two weeks.
00:47 So the next time you watch this masterpiece of Romanticism
00:50 of 5 meters by 7 in the Louvre,
00:52 and you will see hunger, dehydration, madness and even anthropophagy,
00:57 remember that...