Théodore Géricault completed The Raft of the Medusa when he was 27, and the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.
Gareth Wood was born in Cilfynydd, South Wales in 1950. He wrote many works for orchestra, wind band and brass band including 'Actaeon', 'A Tear in the Fabric of Time' and 'Brass Triumphant' amongst ...
Shortly before his death in 1994, Jarman was considering making a film based on Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa which depicts a group of desperate men, abandoned on a raft at sea.
Hans Werner Henzes The Raft of the Medusa is directly inspired by Théodore Géricaults famous painting The German composer sets to music the fate of 150 people who have been shipwrecked and ...
Théodore Géricault completed The Raft of the Medusa when he was 27, and the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. French Neoclassical Paintings from the Horvitz Collection is on view from ...