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Michelangelo Meriso Caravaggio, Head of Medusa, c. 1597 This parade shield was given to Grand Duke Ferdinando I by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, a Medici agent at the papal court in Rome, in 1598. It was intended for the new armoury, where it was part of
the knightly accoutrements of a dummy on horseback wearing Persian armour. The subject, based on the Classical myths on which
Caravaggio had trained in his youth, is reinterpreted here in a naturalistic vein, the eyes open wide in horror, the mouth frozen in a cry of revul-sion, the writhing tangle of serpents (paralleled in the scientific plates commissioned by the Medici from Jacopo Ligozzi seemingly at odds with the drastically severed neck.
Restored in 2002 with funding from the Gruppo Maggiore

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