Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Select Size:24" x 12" The figures are rendered with

The figures are rendered with expressive brushwork

appear to float in a nocturnal landscape

with vibrant fields and a striking blue sky in the background

created between 1503 and 1519

Set against a backdrop of classical architecture and shadowy arches

Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Select Size:24" x 12" The figures are rendered withAbout the artwork: Rubens 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