- Title
- Parallel visions: Byron, Géricault and the Medusa
- Creator
- Beard, Margot
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147792
- Identifier
- vital:38673
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.1999.11761285
- Description
- Martin Meisel has noted that Delacroix's 1841 painting A Shipwreck was recognised as uniting Gericault and Byron. for not only does the painting illustrate that moment in Don Juan when lots are drawn for the human sacrifice {2, 75) but it also invokes comparison with Gericault' s 1819 painting entitled Raft of the Medusa(Meisel1988:601).1 would like to argue in this paper that Gericault' s famous painting and Byron's shipwreck stanzas in the second canto of Don Juan have other points of comparison. Gericault used the Savigny and Correard Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal ( 1817) as the primary source of information for his treatment of the Medusa incident (Eitner 1971: 117). Byron used multiple sources when he researched material for his shipwreck stanzas but it is highly probable that the Savigny and Correard text was one of them. Thus, the cause celebre of the wreck of the Medusa is directly treated by Gericault and indirectly by Byron - two artists temperamentally and artistically attuned.
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- de arte, Margot Beard (1999) Parallel visions: Byron, Géricault and the Medusa, de arte, 34:59, 34-41, DOI: 10.1080/00043389.1999.11761285, de arte volume 34 number 59 34 41 August 2016 2471-4100
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