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Marble sculpture of Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, showing a woman's anguished face framed by intricately carved snakes for hair, displayed in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Large stone Medusa head positioned sideways as a column base, partially submerged in water inside the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, Turkey. Painting by Caravaggio showing the severed head of Medusa with a shocked expression, snakes for hair, and blood dripping from the neck, mounted on a round wooden shield. Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus
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Medusa
Medusa, marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1630; in the Capitoline Museums,...
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Medusa's head
Sculpture depicting Medusa's head in the Basilica Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Caravaggio: Head of the Medusa
Head of the Medusa, by Caravaggio, c. 1598, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence,...
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Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus
Perseus, bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, 1545–54; in the Loggia dei...
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