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Medusa with the Head of Perseus is a sculpture created by Luciano Garbati in 2008. The statue depicts Medusa holding a sword and the head of Perseus, a role reversal of Greek legend. A bronze cast version is temporarily displayed in Collect Pond Park, Lower Manhattan.

The work has been linked to the Me Too movement.[1]

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Medusa with the Head of Perseus

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Medusa with the Head of Perseus is a sculpture created by Luciano Garbati in 2008. The statue depicts Medusa holding a sword and the head of Perseus, a...

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Perseus with the Head of Medusa

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Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in the period 1545–1554. The sculpture stands on a square base which has...

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Medusa

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the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1798–1801) Medusa (oil on canvas) by Leonardo da Vinci Perseus with the...

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Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons

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statue Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini). Medusa's head was also depicted to evoke horror by making the detached head the main subject...

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Medusa Rondanini

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a marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1798-1801), to take the place of the Apollo Belvedere sent to Napoleonic Paris, it was the Medusa Rondanini...

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Gorgons

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Euryale and Stheno were immortal, but Medusa was not and was slain by the hero Perseus. Gorgons were dread monsters with terrifying eyes who instilled fear...

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Perseus

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In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: /ˈpɜːr.si.əs/, UK: /ˈpɜː.sjuːs/; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty. He...

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Stheno and Euryale

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two of the three Gorgons, along with Medusa, sisters who were able to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. When Perseus beheaded Medusa, the two Gorgons...

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Collect Pond

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approximate center of the former pond. In 2020, the Italian-Argentine sculptor Luciano Garbati's work Medusa With the Head of Perseus (2008), a seven-foot-tall...

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Perseus Peak

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Perseus Peak (79°37′S 157°20′E / 79.617°S 157.333°E / -79.617; 157.333) is a distinct, triangular peak on Tentacle Ridge, northwest of Medusa Peak in...

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Gorgoneion

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Jane Ellen Harrison notes that "Medusa is a head and nothing more [...] a mask with a body later appended". Prior to the fifth century BC, she was depicted...

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Chrysaor

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"sword"]) was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa, born when Perseus decapitated the gorgon...

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Perseus and the Gorgon

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three Gorgons, Medusa. Perseus is portrayed looking toward his bronze shield as a mirror to see the reflection of Medusa's head, as looking into her eyes...

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Perseus Freeing Andromeda

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that if he wishes to stay alive he must bring him the head of the Medusa. After Perseus kills Medusa, on his way back home he spots Andromeda and her mother...

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The Raft of the Medusa

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The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting...

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Polydectes

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horses but Perseus failed to bring any, so Polydectes announced that he wanted nothing more than the head of the Gorgon Medusa, since Perseus had previously...

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Benvenuto Cellini

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include the Cellini Salt Cellar, the sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, and his autobiography, which has been described as "one of the most important...

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Loggia dei Lanzi

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bearing the corpse of Patroclus. Flavian Era (1st century CE). Perseus with the head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini Perseus with the head of Medusa by Benvenuto...

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Harpe

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slay the Gorgon, Medusa, and the sea monster, Cetus (in other versions, Perseus used Medusa's head to petrify Cetus). Perseus was provided with such a...

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