Episode 12: Wrecked

Art History for All by Allyson Healey

Jan 29, 201931:58Arts

Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get…

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