EditorialItaly: Medusa as the shield of Athena. Oil on canvas painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610), c. 1597
EditorialA depiction of Medusa by Caravaggio is flanked by ?Black Medusa? and ?White Medusa,? both by Koen Vanmechelen, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, Jan. 28, 2022. (Clara Vannucci/The New York Times)
EditorialForget that famous portrait of Beethoven, scowling with arched eyebrows and Medusa hair. For all its anguish, his music teems with hope. (Angie Wang/The New York Times)
EditorialForget that famous portrait of Beethoven, scowling with arched eyebrows and Medusa hair. For all its anguish, his music teems with hope. (Angie Wang/The New York Times)
EditorialLuciano Garbati’s sculpture “Medusa With the Head of Perseus” on display in Collect Pond Park in New York, Oct. 13, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)