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Gericault’s Monomaniac Portraits

January 30, 2012May 28, 2013Leave a comment

 Although not strictly Outsider Art - I thought I would write a little bit about Gericault's series of Monomaniac portraits, as they provide some insight into the changing ways mental health problems were viewed in the nineteenth century. Gericault's Monomaniac series once consisted of ten portraits of the mentally ill, however, only five have survived into … Continue reading Gericault’s Monomaniac Portraits

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