Perseus with the Head of Medusa
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Perseus with the Head of Medusa (also known as Perseus holding the Head of Medusa) is a recurring theme in artwork, depicting an event from Greek mythology in which the hero Perseus holds up the severed head of the gorgon Medusa.
Cellini's version
By the Renaissance, artists depicted Medusa's head held aloft by the realistic human form of the triumphant hero Perseus (such as in the 1554 bronze statue Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini)
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File:Perseus Canova Pio-Clementino Inv969.jpg|Marble sculpture by Antonio Canova (Vatican) Image:Metropolitan canova perseus medusa 01.JPG|Marble sculpture by Antonio Canova (New York) File:Persee-florence.jpg|Bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini File:Dalí.Perseo.JPG|Sculpture by Salvador Dalí File:Perseus With the Head of Medusa-Grand Cascade of Peterhof.jpg|Sculpture by Feodosy Fedorovich Shchedrin File:Perseo in Villa San Marco Stabiae.jpg|Roman fresco (author unknown) File:Perseusurania.jpg|Perseus with Medusa's head, as depicted in Urania’s Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c. 1825.