Medusa and the Gorgon sisters

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About Medusa and the Gorgon sisters

Medusa's various representations in the arts across ages.

I start by uploading pictures of statues of ancient cultures. Add your contribution as long as it is the representation of an artistic expression (no jelly fish please :-)

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:)
While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born of monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the later fifth century began to envisage her as a being beautiful as well as terrifying. In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a beautiful nymph , but when she had intercourse with Poseidon in Athena's temple, the goddess transformed her hair to serpents and she made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn a man to stone.