Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons

She continues to be recreated in pop culture and art, surpassing the popularity of many other mythological characters.

[1] Her likeness has been immortalized by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Benvenuto Cellini.

Medusa's head with its goggling eyes, fangs, and protruding tongue was depicted on the shield of Athena herself.

[5] "To radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Medusa was an 'abject hero,' a victim of tyranny whose weakness, disfiguration, and monstrous mutilation [had] become, in themselves, a kind of revolutionary power.

[2] Medusa also became a very popular icon in designer fashion, as the logo of the Italian luxury clothing brand Versace portrays a Gorgon head.

Medusa by Caravaggio ; Ufizzi Gallery , Florence
Central motive of the Medusa mosaic, 2nd century BCE, from Kos island, in the palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes , in Rhodes city, island of Rhodes , Greece.
Cellini 's bronze statue of Perseus with the Head of Medusa , completed in the Renaissance
Medusa (1895), watercolour by Carlos Schwabe
Medusa reflected in Perseus's shield, from The Gorgon's Head (1925)