Medusa

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

Two versions of Medusa were created by the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, one in 1596 and the other in ca. 1597. Both depict the moment from Greek mythology in which the Gorgon Medusa is killed by the demigod Perseus, but the Medusas are also self-portraits.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Medusa (Caravaggio)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.