Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Franz Ludwig Catel Rembrandt's use of light and

Rembrandt's use of light and shadow brings a dramatic intensity to the scene

is a powerful visual interpretation of a scene from Dante Alighieri's "Inferno

Edvard Munch’s Eye in Eye (1899-1900) is an unsettling exploration of human connection

while leaving parts of the figure and background unfinished creates a sense of immediacy and intimacy

Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Franz Ludwig Catel Rembrandt's use of light andAbout the artwork: Rubens captures the severed head of Medusa at the very climax of her myth, moments after the hero Perseus has decapitated her. Her eyes, once capable of turning men to stone, are now frozen open in a grotesque expression of terror and agony. But Rubens does not stop at horrorhe transforms the myth into a Baroque spectacle. The painter surrounds her lifeless face with a chaotic mass of writhing snakes that seem to spill out of the