Medusa by Oleksii Gnievyshev 2016
Description
Medusa
In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," but because Poseidon had raped her in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned.
Art:
"Medusa" by Oleksii Gnievyshev
120 x100cm Canvas. Oil
www.art-studia.net
Facebook:
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Music: Max Concors - Releasing The Beast
In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," but because Poseidon had raped her in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned.
Art:
"Medusa" by Oleksii Gnievyshev
120 x100cm Canvas. Oil
www.art-studia.net
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/gnievyshev/
VK:
https://vk.com/club18639822
Music: Max Concors - Releasing The Beast