Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Frame Options:Art Print holding the card prominently as

holding the card prominently as a symbol of his imposed identity and vulnerability

Rivière's meticulous attention to detail and mastery of light and shadow bring the scene to life

painted in 1507

This painting offers a bustling panorama of a Flemish town square

Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Frame Options:Art Print holding the card prominently asAbout 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