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Tempelhof airport in Berlin closed nearly 16 years ago, but one of its hangars will become the venue for the Komische Oper’s staging of Hans Werner Henze’s “The Raft of the Medusa.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2023

At Raft Cove, where one of the containers beached, 95% of the contents have been loaded into debris bags that are being prepared for a helicopter lift.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

The tragedy would later inspire one of the biggest paintings of the 19th century, the 16-by-23-foot The Raft of The Medusa.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021

Some of these accounts are legendary, such as a case that was immortalized by French artist Théodore Géricault in his painting The Raft of the Medusa.

From Scientific American • Apr. 16, 2021

“The Raft of the Medusa” portrays victims of a shipwreck, adrift on the sea without food or water, at the moment they signal to a distant ship.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell