{"id":1602,"date":"2007-03-12T01:28:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2010-05-02T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T20:15:22","slug":"the-masks-of-medusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/12\/the-masks-of-medusa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masks of Medusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had Sartorio&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/11\/the-art-of-giulio-aristide-sartorio-1860-1932\/\"><em>Gorgon and the Heroes<\/em><\/a> yesterday so here&#8217;s some Medusas to continue the theme. Art history, especially in the nineteenth century, is full of Medusa portraits; these are some of the better ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=3786\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_caravaggio.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_caravaggio.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Medusa by Caravaggio (1598-1599).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=17267\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_rubens.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_rubens.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens (1617).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=7529\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_bernini.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_bernini.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (c. 1650).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=3453\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_sandys.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_sandys.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Medusa by Frederick Sandys.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=19304\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_watts.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_watts.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Meduse by George Frederick Watts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_andre.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_andre.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Pendant with the Head of Medusa by Alfred Andr\u00e9 (1885\/1890).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgfa.sunsite.dk\/l\/p-levy1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_dhurmer.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_dhurmer.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Medusa (The Furious Wave) by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (1897).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_wolfers.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_wolfers.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Medusa by Philippe Wolfers (1898). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/gettyguide\/artObjectDetails?artobj=1336&amp;handle=li\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_gemito.jpg\" alt=\"medusa_gemito.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Medusa by Vincenzo Gemito (1911).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/11\/the-art-of-giulio-aristide-sartorio-1860-1932\/\">The art of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860\u20131932<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had Sartorio&#8217;s Gorgon and the Heroes yesterday so here&#8217;s some Medusas to continue the theme. Art history, especially in the nineteenth century, is full of Medusa portraits; these are some of the better ones. Medusa by Caravaggio (1598-1599). Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens (1617).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,41,45],"tags":[226,1846,2432,2059,6402,2349,4484],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-sculpture","category-symbolists","tag-caravaggio","tag-george-frederick-watts","tag-giulio-aristide-sartorio","tag-lucien-levy-dhurmer","tag-peter-paul-rubens","tag-philippe-wolfers","tag-rubens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-pQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}