Anne-Louis Girodet: Scene of the Flood
This dramatic and unsettling painting won Girodet a prize at the Salon of 1806. This is not your usual painting of a Biblical scene - clearly straying into allegory, it seems to depict humanity's struggle to survive in a hostile world. The central figure of the man appears to be striving heroically to save others. Though Girodet's style was firmly rooted in Neoclassicism, this painting very much anticipates Romanticism in its naked emotional impact.
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