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Perseus with the Head of Medusa
by Glyptotek
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The composition of Antonio Canova's depiction of Perseus and The Gorgon Medusa has probed to be one of the most important of Canova's career. It closely reflects his admiration for the art of antiquity and signals his fame as the rival or ancient masters. It was obviously, if freely, based on the Apollo Belvedere, whose loss had been widely mourned in Italy ever since Napoleon's troops carted it off from the Vatican to Paris in 1797. In its frontality and majestic motion, Perseus' stance recalls
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