EditorialItaly: Medusa as the shield of Athena. Oil on canvas painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610), c. 1597
EditorialA visitor views “Perseus and Andromeda,” left, and “The Rape of Europa,” on display in “Titian: Women, Myth & Power,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Aug. 10, 2021. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
EditorialLuciano Garbati’s sculpture “Medusa With the Head of Perseus” on display in Collect Pond Park in New York, Oct. 13, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)