Painting reproduction hand painted
Medusa 2 (Stuck)

Franz von Stuck’s artwork “Head of Medusa” is undoubtedly one of the most hypnotic and chilling representations of the famous Greek myth. The symbolist artist chooses here to narrow the action onto the pale, luminescent face of the freshly decapitated Gorgon. Her clear, excessively wide eyes seem to shine with a ghostly glow, fixing the viewer with an unbearable intensity, still threatening to petrify them. Around her deathly pale face, heavy snakes intertwine in the surrounding darkness, blending into a black background of abyssal depth. This fascinating canvas perfectly embodies the fin-de-siècle obsession with the fatal, dangerous, and deadly woman. A masterpiece of the symbolist movement.