Girodet face à Géricault ou la bataille romantique du Salon de 1819. Catalogue At the end of the

At the end of the 1880s

is the archetype of each of us trying to construct our personal space

and during the reign of Alexios I Komnenos

of the republics and of the Catholic donors

" "Art—a lively

Girodet face à Géricault ou la bataille romantique du Salon de 1819. Catalogue At the end of theAt the 1819 Salon, Girodet's "Pygmalion and Galatea," emblematic of the neoclassical school of art, and Gricault's "Raft of the Medusa," standard bearer of an aesthetic avant garde, clashed. The duel was at the heart of the Romantic battle that was emerging at the time and that would animate the following Salons. It is this major event on the French art scene that the exhibition and the dedicated catalog intend to commemorate around the famous figures