Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Case Style:Tough the statue emanates a sense

the statue emanates a sense of timelessness and contemplation

"Reclining Woman with Green Stockings" by Egon Schiele

intellectual New Woman

while the architectural grandeur of the Babylonian palace conveys the opulence and decadence of the ancient empire

enhancing the eerie and supernatural feel of the scene

Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Case Style:Tough the statue emanates a senseRubens captures the severed head of Medusa at the very climax of her myth, moments after the hero Perseus has decapitated her. Her eyes, once capable of turning men to stone, are now frozen open in a grotesque expression of terror and agony. But Rubens does not stop at horrorhe transforms the myth into a Baroque spectacle. The painter surrounds her lifeless face with a chaotic mass of writhing snakes that seem to spill out of the canvas, some even