Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone

Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone

Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson

Catalogue

Year
1567
Dimensions
20.4 × 48.7 cm (8 1/16 × 19 3/16 in.)

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Polidoro da Caravaggio

Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio, was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now-vanished paintings on the facades of Roman houses. He was unrelated to the later painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, usually known just as Caravaggio, but both came from the town of Caravaggio.

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