Medusa by Vincenzo Cohen (Original Painting)
Paintings by Vincenzo Cohen For Sale
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Title: Medusa
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Artist: Vincenzo Cohen
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Category: Paintings
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Medium: oil on canvas
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Size (inches): 27.55x27.55
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Year: 2021
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Framed?: Unframed
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Shipping from: Italy
Reduced Price: $3300 USD $3000 USD
Artwork description
According to historical tradition, the Gorgon Medusa was once a beautiful princess of Libya. The myth informs us that Athena, jealous of her beauty, transformed her into a monster with serpentine hair and flaming eyes with petrifying power. The enterprise of killing the Gorgon was entrusted to the valiant Perseus, who decapitated her by making her blood gush into the sea which suddenly generated corals. In the ancient Roman tradition his image had an apotropaic power and was used as a warning
against enemies: his figure was placed in the form of an idol in defense of ports, in the form of a protome on the prow of ships and as a protective effigy on the shields of soldiers. The painting depicts her in all her seductive power, wrapped in the mist of mystery with floating hair in which snakes creep. Her figure has often been associated with that of Hecate/Selene, goddess of the moon, due to her changing and enigmatic nature. The artist has chosen to represent the myth in its original beauty, without however renouncing to represent the dark and sensual side of the myth using the image of the Italian actress Ornella Muti for the realization of the face. The painting has undergone changes in the eyes (before with, then without- artist’s choice).
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