What do you do if you’re athletic
and good-looking, talented enough to catch the public’s attention, and you’re
engaged in a scandal serious enough to get you horsewhipped and thrown in a
French jail? If you’re Theodore Géricault (pronounced Gericho) and you’ve impregnated the young hottie your uncle
recently married, you lock yourself away in a studio for two years, shave your
head to avoid the temptation of showing your face, and paint one of the
masterpieces of western civilization.Read about it (here).
