Damien Hirst, 2013, Gold, silver, 320 x 397 x 397mm (12.6 x 15.6 x 15.6in)
Private Collection
Image © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2018
Early seventh-century BCE pithos from the Kykladic Islands showing Perseus about to chop Medusa’s head off. In this version she has the body of a horse.
1st-2nd century A.D. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Roman mosaic of the head of Medusa from a tepidarium Tunisia dating to the late second century CE
Medusa mosaic with blonde snakes (2nd c. CE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens), image via Wikipedia
(Greek, 4th century BCE), bronze, width: 4 7/8 inches; length: 15 3/4inches (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen, 1991)
Created for the temples of Venus and Roma, built 137 AD in Rome, now in Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne, Germany.
photo: Christoph Wagener, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Studio of Antonio Canova, (Rome, 1806-07), plaster cast with modern metal rod (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1967)
Greek terra-cotta plaque of Medusa running, dated to between c. 620 and c. 600 BCE, currently on display in the Archaeological Museum of Syracuse
Archaic Gorgon (around 580 BC), as depicted on a pediment from the temple of Artemis in Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
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Tondo from an Attic black-figure kylix dated to the late sixth century BCE depicting the face of a Gorgon
first-century CE Roman door decoration of the head of Medusa from the city of Pompeii, Museo Archeologico (Naples)
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Roman relief carving of the head of Medusa dating to the second or third century CE
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© Michael Greenhalgh, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons
Ancient Roman fresco, Pompeian Fourth Style (45-79 AD), National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy
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Vienna, Schönbrunn gardens, statue
Omphale wearing Hercules' garb, 18th-century sculpture from the Schönbrunn Garden by Joseph Anton Weinmüller
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, after 1537, National Museum Poznan
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Angelica Kauffman, c.1780, Neoclassicism
Paris Bordone, 1555, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
Engraving by J. Punt and P. Tanjé after C. Troost.
. . . a woman descending a ladder in to the arms of her lover; a duel between the woman's lovers; the demons offer such solutions as divorce and suicide.
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, published London 1875, National Library of Medicine
John Brown, 1765, Cleveland Museum of Art
Brown is known for a small group of monochromatic drawings imbued with sinister overtones. This drawing exemplifies his Roman street scenes which often depict women dressed in spectacular, billowing costumes. Here, a coquette with bare ankles and plunging décolletage is surrounded by a crowd of vulgar types who leer, ogle, judge, and scorn. The reverse of the sketchbook sheet includes two independent drawings: a study of faces in fierce and intense expressions, and a pair of women wearing swirling gowns. One figure raises her hand in a mysterious gesture that casts a shadow on her throat resembling a claw. Whether the viewer is being beckoned or forewarned remains a mystery.
Paul Klee, 1922, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) :Louvre Museum
Statue of queen Cleopatra VII. Basalt, second half of the first century BC. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Jacob Jordaens, 1653, Baroque: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Artemisia Gentileschi, c.1620, Private collection Cavallini-Sgarbi Foundation, Ferrara, Italy
Marc Chagall, 1956
Dalila coupe les cheveux de Samson qu'elle a endormi sur ses genoux et, l'ayant ainsi privé de sa force surhumaine, va le livrer aux Philistins qui le guettent (Juges, XVI, 15-18)
William Bouguereau, , 1850, Oil on canvas 280.5 x 225.3 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Edvard Munch, 1895, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1869, Romanticism: Buscot Park (Faringdon Collection), Faringdon, UK