Caravaggio’s Medusa: why we need to look the Gorgon in the eye

Caravaggio’s work is reputed to be a self-portrait says Professor Marie-Louise Crawley as she reexamines this classic through a contemporary lens

The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite alive, but she is not yet dead either.

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