{"id":1411,"date":"2007-02-04T05:13:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T05:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2008-07-20T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T03:30:23","slug":"seamen-in-great-distress-eat-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/04\/seamen-in-great-distress-eat-one-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamen in great distress eat one another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/seamen.jpg\" alt=\"seamen.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Seamen in great distress eat one another (1685).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <em>Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy<\/em> by Robert Burton. One of those incidents, like witch burnings and other executions, whose quaint period depiction is at considerable odds with what would have been an appalling reality. This picture can&#8217;t help but bring to mind Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault&#8217;s masterpiece, <em>The Raft of the Medusa<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa\" target=\"_blank\">based on a later occurrence<\/a> of sea-faring cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=2187\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/gericault.jpg\" alt=\"gericault.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Raft of the Medusa (1819). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/gericault_grave.jpg\" alt=\"gericault_grave.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I photographed G\u00e9ricault&#8217;s grave when I was in P\u00e8re Lachaise cemetery in September. As well as the statue of the artist lounging atop his monument, the tomb features panels at the front and sides with bronze reliefs of his most famous works. <em>The Raft of the Medusa<\/em> faces the path.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/27\/druillet-meets-hodgson\/\">Druillet meets Hodgson<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/17\/rogues-gallery-pirate-ballads-sea-songs-and-chanteys\/\">Rogue&#8217;s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/30\/davy-jones\/\">Davy Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seamen in great distress eat one another (1685). From Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy by Robert Burton. One of those incidents, like witch burnings and other executions, whose quaint period depiction is at considerable odds with what would have been an appalling reality. This picture can&#8217;t help but bring to mind Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault&#8217;s masterpiece, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/04\/seamen-in-great-distress-eat-one-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seamen in great distress eat one another&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-mL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}