To whom was Delacroix a spiritual heir?
Théodore Géricault
Ingres
Rubens
Van Gogh
Answer
Théodore Géricault was a French Romantic painter and one of the forerunners of the Realist movement. He is best known for his painting The Raft of the Medusa, which depicts the survivors of a shipwreck adrift on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Géricault's work was characterized by its dramatic and emotional intensity, and he was influenced by the work of the Italian painter Michelangelo.
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