NAVEGANDO EM ÁGUAS CAMBIANTES COM GÉRICAULT, LAMARTINE E DELACROIX
Nara Helena N. Machado; Robert Ponge | 28-50 https://doi.org/10.29327/2402731.9.2-4
In line with the theme of this issue of Topus – the presence of water in literature and other arts – and in an approach to it, our aim is to research some romantic pursuits in which an aquatic presence is expressed, signaling in it some implications, not always unison or transparent. We specifically study three artistic expressions of French Romanticism: The Raft of the Medusa, a painting by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824); "The Lake", a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869); The Barque of Dante (also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell), a canvas by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). How shall we proceed? After a brief contextualization, we carry out an analysis of each one of the three works, highlighting the role and possible meanings (explicit or not) of the appearance of water in them. Next, we compare them, always taking the aquatic dimension as our axis. Finally, we point to the scope of the aquatic dimension in Romanticism. (Translated from Portuguese by Márcia S. Nunes).
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