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| Ancient Greece Head of Medusa 3rd-1st century BC carnelian intaglio Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ancient Greece Roundel with Head of Medusa 3rd century BC silver bridle-ornament Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Roman Empire Head of Medusa 1st century BC amethyst intaglio Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Roman Empire Head of Sleeping Medusa 1st century BC - 3rd century AD peridot intaglio Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Head of Medusa 1st-2nd century AD amethyst cameo British Museum |
Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
Andromeda, by Perseus sav'd and wed,
Hanker'd each day to see the Gorgon's head:
Till o'er a fount he held it, bade her lean,
And mirror'd in the wave was safely seen
That death she liv'd by.
Let not thine eyes know
Any forbidden thing itself, although
It once should save as well as kill: but be
Its shadow upon life enough for thee.
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ca. 1867)
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| Roman Empire Head of Medusa 2nd-3rd century AD sardonyx cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Benvenuto Cellini Head of Medusa ca. 1545-50 bronze sketch-model Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Benvenuto Cellini Head of Medusa ca. 1545-50 bronze sketch-model Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous German Maker Head of Medusa ca. 1580 agate cameo set into a ring of enameled gold Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Wedgwood & Bentley Head of Medusa ca. 1775-80 jasperware plaque Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Wedgwood & Bentley (designed by John Flaxman) Head of Medusa 1776 jasperware plaque Harvard Art Museums |
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| Benedetto Pistrucci Head of Medusa ca. 1840-50 red jasper cameo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Alfred George Stevens Mask of Medusa ca. 1850 plaster cast after ancient original in Munich Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| copy after Gianlorenzo Bernini Medusa ca. 1775-1800 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |