Medusa Gallery

Naked-eye medusa and hydrozoan jellyfish

Naked-eye medusa, Orythia viridis, Oritia verde 1, and hydrozoans, Geryonia proboscidalis, Dianea gabert 2, and Liriope tetraphylla, Gerionia tetrafilla 3. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Corsi, drawn by Jean Gabriel Pretre and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

© Florilegius

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. On his shoulders is the helmet that made him invisible, his sword Harpe and under his cloak is the severed head of Gorgon Medusa. Vignette of human heads sacrificed to Bacchus below. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Medusa Rondanini. Roman copy of a classical work of the 5th

Medusa Rondanini. The Gorgon. The model for this Roman work was the Gorgon head on the shield of the cult statue in the Parthemon on the Acropolis in Athens. May be a Roman copy of a classical work of the fifth century BC. A model attributed to one or another Athenian sculptor of the age of Phidias. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans