[Medusa Being Approached by Perseus] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Medusa Being Approached by Perseus]
Subject: Greek Mythology; Important Women; Medusa
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Hesperides; Atlantic Ocean
Description: This illustration depicts Medusa on the left side of the image, standing tall and pointing towards the men who approach her. Boccaccio explains that Medusa was known for her incredible beauty, and it would at times render men motionless, as if it stunned them. The reputation of her beauty had become so widely known that the hero Perseus had traveled to see her. The man approaching Medusa is presumably Perseus, as he is the only man Boccaccio refers to by name in this chapter.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:11988
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_11988_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Greek Mythology; Important Women; Medusa