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Medusa and her Gorgon sisters Euryale and Stheno were usually described as daughters of Phorcys and Ceto; of the three, only Medusa was mortal. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon [5] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.
Medusa's Head, a Flemish painter, ca. 1600, Uffizi Gallery. In 1782, Leonardo's biographer Luigi Lanzi, while making a search for his paintings in the Uffizi, discovered a depiction of Medusa's head which he erroneously attributed to Leonardo, based on Vasari's description of Leonardo's second version of the subject:
The portrait draws on the myth of Medusa, the snake haired woman whose gaze could turn onlookers to stone. Unlike other depictions of the Medusa, such as Benevento Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, the Medusa is not portrayed as a vanquished figure with her head severed from her body, but as a living monster. Bernini’s decision to create a ...
Medusa reflected in Perseus's shield, from The Gorgon's Head (1925) The myth of Perseus and Medusa was adapted into a 1925 silent short film titled The Gorgon's Head . In 2020, The Gorgon's Head is among the films uploaded on the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's official YouTube channel to celebrate the exhibition's 150th anniversary.
A dishonorable king tasked Perseus, a mythological Greek hero, with bringing him an impossible gift: Medusa’s head. With divine tools lent by the gods, Perseus crept into the Gorgons’ lair and ...
The hair upon Medusa's head is frequently represented in works of art in the form of snakes. Freud considered that, as penis symbols derived from the pubic hair, they serve to mitigate the horror of the complex, [2] as a form of overcompensation. [3] This sight of Medusa's head makes the spectator stiff with terror, turns him to stone.
The bronze sculpture, in which Medusa's head turns men to stone, is appropriately surrounded by three huge marble statues of men: Hercules, David, and later Neptune. [2] Cellini's use of bronze in Perseus and the head of Medusa, and the motifs he used to respond to the previous sculpture in the piazza, were highly innovative.
Taeniatherum is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. [3] [4] [5]The only recognized species is medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) which is native to southern and central Europe (from Portugal to European Russia), North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), and Asia (from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Kazakhstan).