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Circular painting of Medusa with a serpent-entwined head of hair against a golden field of writhing snakes.

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A circular painted work shows the face of Medusa framed by her hair of coiled green serpents streaked with reddish-brown tresses. Golden serpents and stippled gold ground fill the surrounding circular field. Evelyn De Morgan made this work, titled Medusa, in 1873, and it is held by Wikimedia Commons.

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1873

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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