0873PerseusMedusa

0873PerseusMedusa_Volterrano

National Gallery
Ovid Met.6.146-312

Volterrano, "Perseus and the Head of Medusa", 1650's, private collection, Germany

Comitato Rafaelle, Il Seicento Fiorentino: arte a Firenze da Ferdinan I a Cosimo III, 3 vols. Exhibition Catalogue (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1986 - 1987)

An oval painting in a gilded frame depicts Perseus holding Medusa's severed head, reflected in his shield.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.