Medusa by Caravaggio, 1597
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Painted commissioned by Caravaggio's patron Cardinal del Monte in 1597. Medusa was painted on a wooden shield that was gifted to Ferdinando de Medici. Typical of Caravaggio's interest in physiognomic expression, as in the later David with the Head of Goliath or Judith and Holofernes. Currently hosted at the Uffizi Museum, in Florence, Italy.
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Other paintings/pictures tagged "Medusa"
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Caravaggio Maturity period paintings
Saint Jerome Writing (1605-1606) • St. John the Baptist (1595) • St. Francis (1606) • The Entombment (1602-1603) • The Crowning with Thorns (1602-1603) • Madonna di Loreto (1603-1605) • St. John The Baptist (1602) • St. Jerome in Meditation (1605) • Ecce Homo (1606) • The Crowning with Thorns (1595) • Madonna with the Serpent (1606) • Saint Francis (1606)
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Caravaggio Later paintings (the Maltese period)
Sleeping Cupid (1608) • Beheading of John the Baptist (1608) • The Seven Acts of Mercy (1607) • Christ at the Column (1607) • Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt (1608) • St Jerome (1607) • Madonna del Rosario (1607) • Flagellation of Christ (1607) • Burial of St Lucy (1608) • Raising of Lazarus (1609) • Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt 2 (1607-1608)
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Caravaggio Cerasi Chapel Paintings
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Caravaggio Contarelli Chapel Paintings
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Visitors Comments on Medusa by Caravaggio
This work, which has always belonged to a private collection, was created by Caravaggio in 1596 and can be viewed as emblematic of his formative years, in particular due to the underdrawing which was brought to light by recent indepth scientific investigations.
The same techniques have been used to date the shield to between 1596 and 1597, the period when Caravaggio moved to Rome. Conceptually speaking, in this way the Murtola Medusa closes the painter’s Lombard period and opens the Roman one, when, as Vittorio Sgarbi recalls: “he suddenly transformed everything, to the point that the shockwaves of his revolution reached the whole of Europe, and there was not one great painter who did not come from France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands to see what Caravaggio had done”.