Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Franz Ludwig Catel Edvard Munch’s Eye in Eye

Edvard Munch’s Eye in Eye (1899-1900) is an unsettling exploration of human connection

filled with wonder and longing

is a powerful visual interpretation of a scene from Dante Alighieri's "Inferno

creating a sense of depth and movement

introspective moments

Head of Medusa | Peter Paul Rubens | 1618 Franz Ludwig Catel Edvard Munch’s Eye in EyeAbout the artwork: Rubens 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