Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Jean-Leon Gerome often assumed to be his

often assumed to be his wife or daughter

The juxtaposition of these items in the desolate landscape plays with themes of the absurd and the unknown

" part of Hilma af Klint's series exploring the theme of primordial chaos

His prolific body of work includes famous pieces like "Starry Night

Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Jean-Leon Gerome often assumed to be hisRubens captures the severed head of Medusa at the very climax of her myth, moments after the hero Perseus has decapitated her. Her eyes, once capable of turning men to stone, are now frozen open in a grotesque expression of terror and agony. But Rubens does not stop at horrorhe transforms the myth into a Baroque spectacle. The painter surrounds her lifeless face with a chaotic mass of writhing snakes that seem to spill out of the canvas, some even