Medusa
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Title
Medusa
Description
Caravaggio' s depiction of Medusa. This work was painted on a sixteenth-century tournament and was commissioned by Cardinal del Monte. Caravaggio chose to depict Medusa in a terrifying manner with a horrified expression. Caravaggio depicts her at the moment of her death when Perseus kills her.
Creator
Caravaggio
Source
Schneider, Laurie. “Donatello and Caravaggio: The Iconography of Decapitation.” American Imago 33, no. 1 (1976): 76–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26303021.
lennon, Madeleine. “Medusa in Ancient Greek Art.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/medu/hd_medu.htm (March 2017).
Posèq, Avigdor W. G. “On Physiognomic Communication in Bernini.” Artibus et Historiae 27, no. 54 (2006): 161–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/20067127.
lennon, Madeleine. “Medusa in Ancient Greek Art.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/medu/hd_medu.htm (March 2017).
Posèq, Avigdor W. G. “On Physiognomic Communication in Bernini.” Artibus et Historiae 27, no. 54 (2006): 161–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/20067127.
Publisher
Cardinal del Monte
Date
1597
Contributor
Sofia Silvosa
Format
60 cm × 55 cm
Type
Oil on canvas mounted on wood
Coverage
Uffizzi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Files
Citation
Caravaggio, “Medusa,” ARTHIST 256 - Italian Baroque Art - Fall 2021, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.baroque.dahvc.org/fall-2021/items/show/299.