As you can tell from my Medusa book (or if you’ve taken one of my Humanities courses), I’m a bit of a mythology junkie.
I thought I had looked upon almost every depiction of Medusa imaginable, but today, I just found another new one:
Now that one creeps me out. It’s not just scary, but it’s realistic, as if I’d be scared to get within a few feet of that dead head–and the snakes don’t look dead at all! EEEk.
One look would indeed petrify me with fear.
Another creepy one that isn’t as scary, but is more famous is by Caravaggio, the Baroque painter:
And then another fairly common image in relief sculptures:
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There, your Medusa for the day.
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