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The Severed Heads

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Description: The Severed Heads
TitleThe Severed Heads
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1810
Creation date (description)1810s
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationNationalmuseum, Stockholm
http:/­/­collection.nationalmuseum.se/­eMP/­eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=19173&viewType=detailView
Accession numberNM 2113
SubjectsPainting, French--19th centuryBodies--PartsBeheadingBlood in art
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2. Animacy: Partner, Person, Subject
Alan C. Braddock
Description: Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History
Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History
The time has come for art history to expand its understanding of agency by regarding nonhuman animals, plants, and other phenomena...
Author
Alan C. Braddock
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© Yale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00341.3
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Chapter subject tags:EcocriticismAnimacyKant, Immanuel, 1724-1804Painting, Chinese--Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368Kongo (African people)--Funeral customs and ritesAnthropoceneObjectification (Social psychology)Minimal art--United StatesFried, Michael
5. Masculinity and Monstrosity: The Body in Pieces
Anthea Callen
Description: Looking at Men: Anatomy, Masculinity and the Modern Male Body
Looking at Men: Anatomy, Masculinity and the Modern Male Body
The massive fragments of classical sculpture – the hand and foot that the diminutive figure of Fuseli/the artist contemplates with such regret on the opening page of Linda Nochlin’s The Body in Pieces (fig. 5.1) – provide the perfect basis for this...
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Anthea Callen
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Anthea Callen
Related print edition pages: pp.184-221
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Chapter subject tags:Human anatomy--Study and teachingMedicine and artMasculinity in artHuman dissection

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Description: Anatomical Fragments
Anatomical Fragments
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1818
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions20 1/2 × 25 3/16 in. (52 × 64 cm)
LocationMusée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Accession numberInv. 876.3.38
Anatomical Fragments
Anatomical Fragments
Description: Anatomical Fragments
Anatomical Fragments
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1818
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions14 3/4 × 18 1/8 in. (37.5 × 46 cm)
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
Anatomical Fragments
Anatomical Fragments
Description: Study for Raft of the Medusa
Study for Raft of the Medusa
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1818–1819
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions14 3/4 × 18 1/8 in. (37.5 × 46 cm)
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064841
Study for Raft of the Medusa
Study for Raft of the Medusa
Description: Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1818–1819
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064841
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Description: Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1818–1819
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064841
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Description: Mustapha
Mustapha
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1817–1819
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions23 11/32 × 18 29/32 in. (59.3 × 48 cm)
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon, France
http://memoirevive.besancon.fr/ark:/48565/a0114642667400IfnWy
Accession number886.3.4
Mustapha
Mustapha
Description: Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1818–1819
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064841
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Study for Raft of the Medusa, detail
Description: Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1812
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions137 3/8 × 104 3/4 in. (349 × 266 cm)
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059198
Accession numberINV. 4885
Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
Description: Black on a Rearing Horse
Black on a Rearing Horse
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 03
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1820–1824
Object typePainting
MaterialsBlack crayon, brown ink wash, white gouache, blue paper, watercolor
Dimensions8 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (21 × 26 cm)
LocationPrivate Collection, Paris
Black on a Rearing Horse
Black on a Rearing Horse
Description: Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 30
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1820
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
Description: Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on paper over canvas
LocationPrivate collection
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Description: The Entombment
The Entombment
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator name (description)after Titian
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1810–1812
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée cantonale des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
https://www.mcba.ch/en/collection/the-entombment/
Accession number1966-035
The Entombment
The Entombment
Description: Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard, study
Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard, study
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1812
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on paper over canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066506
Accession numberRF 210
Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard,...
Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard, study
Description: Wounded cuirassier leaving the fire
Wounded cuirassier leaving the fire
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1814
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059200
Accession numberINV 4886; MN 51
Wounded cuirassier leaving the fire
Wounded cuirassier leaving the fire
Description: Wounded Cuirassier
Wounded Cuirassier
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1800–1825
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010063584
Accession numberRF 211
Wounded Cuirassier
Wounded Cuirassier
Description: A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank
A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1819–1822
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationSammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland
https://www.roemerholz.ch/sor/en/home/museum/the-collection/the-artists/theodore-gericault--a-man-suffering-from-delusions-of-military-r.html#
A Man Suffering from Delusions of...
A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank
Description: Monomania of Envy
Monomania of Envy
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1820
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
Monomania of Envy
Monomania of Envy
Description: The crazy gambling addict
The crazy gambling addict
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1819–1822
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010063587
Accession numberRF 1938 51
The crazy gambling addict
The crazy gambling addict
Description: Monomania of Child Stealing
Monomania of Child Stealing
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1822
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationMichele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
Monomania of Child Stealing
Monomania of Child Stealing

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