Art · Skopia

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5 works

Raft of the Medusa

1819 · Louvre, Paris

Survivors of a real shipwreck pile toward a speck of sail on the horizon. Géricault studied corpses and asylum patients before he began.

★ 9.0

1867 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Monet's own father sits among the gladioli on a terrace, and the young painter tips the space up in flat bands like a Japanese print.

★ 6.6

1951 · Private collection

A door opens straight onto the water with no shore in between, and the only other thing in the picture is sunlight on a wall.

★ 6.6

1912 · National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff

Monet went to Venice late and found a city already doing what he had spent fifty years trying to paint.

★ 6.3

1905 · Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

Gondolas on water that has shattered into pink, blue and gold. Signac took the divisionist dot to the most painted view in Europe.

★ 4.8