The head of Medusa 8
- Title:
- The head of Medusa 8
- Collection:
- Cornell Gem Impressions Collection
- Creator:
- Winckelman claims that the name of the engraver is Solon and that there is an engraving of SOLONOS on the medallion - it does not appear on the Cornell copy
- Date:
- 19th century
- Site:
- The original is in the Strozzi Office in Rome
- Location:
- The original is in the Strozzi Office in Rome
- ID Number:
- GI_12_124
- Accession Number:
- 12_3_0145
- Winckelmann No.:
- 145
- File Name:
- GI_12_124.jpg
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- casts (sculpture)
paste (glass) - Subject:
- head of Medusa
- Description:
- The head of Medusa in profile. This appears to be before she was turned into a gorgon.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Gems Collection (in part the White Collection of Historical Medallions, #8420, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying material, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2013 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Caitlin Barrett and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.