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-'''''Severed Heads''''' ([[1818]]) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahsonic/544453454/in/photostream/] is a painting by French artist [[Théodore Géricault]]. It depicts two [[severed]] [[head]]s on a white cloth. It turns out to be, not a painting of two heads fresh from the [[guillotine]], but a painted elaboration of an illustration to a book on anatomy (''[[Engravings, explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints]]'' ) by British surgeon [[John Bell]]. +'''''Heads of the Executed''''' ('''Têtes des suppliciés''', [[1818]]) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Théodore_Géricault_Dois_justiçados.jpg] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th%C3%A9odore_Gericault_T%C3%AAtes-de-supplicies.jpg] is a painting by French artist [[Théodore Géricault]]. It depicts two [[severed]] [[head]]s on a white cloth. Some art historians hold that this is not a painting of two heads fresh from the [[guillotine]], but a painted elaboration of an illustration to a book on anatomy (''[[Engravings, explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints]]'' ) by British surgeon [[John Bell]].
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 +The painting is in the collection of the [[Nationalmuseum]][http://www.nationalmuseum.se/sv/Skola/For-SFI-och-SAS/En-malning-tusen-berattelser/Varterminen-2009/Maryem-fran-Irak/], Stockholm.
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 +The painting is part of a series of [[preparatory painting]]s for his masterpiece ''[[Raft of the Medusa]]'', a series to which also belongs ''[[Anatomical Pieces]]'', ''[[Head of a Drowned Man]]'' and ''[[Study of Truncated Limbs]]''.
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==See also== ==See also==
 +*http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.be/2012/02/theodore-gericaults-morgue-based.html
 +*[[Art horror]]
*[[Decapitation]] *[[Decapitation]]
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Heads of the Executed (Têtes des suppliciés, 1818) [1] [2] is a painting by French artist Théodore Géricault. It depicts two severed heads on a white cloth. Some art historians hold that this is not a painting of two heads fresh from the guillotine, but a painted elaboration of an illustration to a book on anatomy (Engravings, explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints ) by British surgeon John Bell.

The painting is in the collection of the Nationalmuseum[3], Stockholm.

The painting is part of a series of preparatory paintings for his masterpiece Raft of the Medusa, a series to which also belongs Anatomical Pieces, Head of a Drowned Man and Study of Truncated Limbs.

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