The Raft of the Medusa Framing options:Stretched Canvas (ready to hang) The canvas represents the shores

The canvas represents the shores of Lake Attersee in Upper Austria (Litzlberg is a village and one of the islands in the lake)

which can be read as a metaphor for painting

but it is an oddly beautiful and oddly humorous image

while all reference to illusionistic depth has been eliminated

The Raft of the Medusa Framing options:Stretched Canvas (ready to hang) The canvas represents the shoresThis work marks a turning point in history painting. It takes as its subject a controversial news item questioning the negligence of the government of Louis XVIII in the case of the sinking of a French frigate off the coast of Senegal in 1816. The castaways, abandoned to their fate, had engaged in acts of cannibalism. To paint it, the artist had reconstructed a real raft in his studio and illustrated corpses. In search of realism, Gricault does not