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In 1819 French romanticist Theodore Gericault revolutionized painting with his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa. This painting dramatized an infamous French shipwreck that had taken place just a few years before, in which, after a captain left a crew and passengers to die, they resorted to murder and cannibalism in order to survive. They were rescued after being at sea for 13 days, with only 15 of 151 surviving to tell the tale.

In preparation for this painting, Gericault visited morgues and hospitals, studying and painting still lives of dissected cadavers in his painstakingly researched for his masterwork.

This presentation, by medical illustrator Marie Dauenheimer, will explore the history of the painting, with a special emphasis on the artist’s many preparatory drawings and paintings created from cadavers in morgues, including his still life “Anatomical Pieces” of 1818 (see images to the right).

Marie Dauenheimer, MA, CMI, FAMI is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator working in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She became interested in the life and work of Theodore Gericault in college when she studied his paintings in art history class while doing anatomical dissections in the medical school Gross Anatomy Lab.

In addition to maintaining a successful medical illustration business, Marie organizes educational travel opportunities through the Vesalius Trust Foundation. These “Art and Anatomy Tours” to Europe offer the unique opportunity to study the vast history of art and anatomy by visiting dissecting theatres, anatomy museums, anatomical and pathological wax collections, and art collections. Her next tour, being co-organized by Joanna Ebenstein, will be to France and Switzerland in October 2022.

Image: from Theodore Gericault’s Anatomical Pieces of 1818