Heads of the Executed (Géricault)
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- For the 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch, see A Severed Head, for the Géricault painting, see Severed Heads (Géricault).
Théodore Géricault's Severed Heads (1818) [1], a painting of two severed heads on a white cloth, 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. This site on France and Scotland in the Arts gives a detailed explanation how Délacroix's Severed Heads is a painted elaboration of the work of John Bell, not an image of guillotined heads.
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