A dishonorable king tasked Perseus, a mythological Greek hero, with bringing him an impossible gift: Medusa’s head. With ...

23 x 18 cm. (9.1 x 7.1 in.) ...

Here, Perseus rescues her from the sea monster, Cetus (shown slain in the foreground), after having also defeated Medusa previously (indicated by her famous head with writing snake-hair on his ...

21 x 26.7 cm. (8.3 x 10.5 in.) ...

You'll find historical and artistic gems down every cobbled street in this Italian city, which is why it's considered the ...

Deep inside the cave, archaeologists found fragments from the head of a large ... Legend places their lair, in which the hero Perseus beheaded the most evil of the siblings, the snake-haired Medusa, ...

A few details—unsmoothed caliper marks on the cheeks, one wing of the Medusa head on Cosimo’s armor —seemed unfinished. Otherwise the statue was in near-perfect condition. After Cellini’s ...

Some to look out for are the 500-year-old Fountain of Neptune, Perseus with the head of Medusa and Michelangelo’s David (which is a replica). However, the latter is a replica, with the original housed ...