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Géricault painted catastrophe with a pathologist's palette — ochre flesh against a bruised sea and a sky too low to escape.

Théodore Géricault

Painter · Romanticism · 1791–1824

French Romantic whose Raft of the Medusa staged shipwreck flesh and a storm-bruised sea in ochre, green, and dirty cream.

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Géricault painted catastrophe with a pathologist's palette — ochre flesh against a bruised sea and a sky too low to escape.

French Romantic whose Raft of the Medusa staged shipwreck flesh and a storm-bruised sea in ochre, green, and dirty cream.

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