I’m sharing my creative process as I recreate Caravaggio’s Medusa using an unconventional canvas—a dustpan! Watch as I layer, ...

Caravaggio, “Medusa” (1597–98), oil on canvas, 23 3/5 x 21 3/5 inches, held at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (image via Wikimedia Commons) ...

Caravaggio's take on the mythological figure who turned men into stone is both intriguing and scary. Medusa and her severed head, with writhing snakes and a scary, terrified gaze, is painted with ...

Caravaggio, Medusa (1595–1598). Collection of the Uffizi, Florence. In The Cardsharps, the wealthy young boy stares intently at his cards, unaware of the chicanery that unfolds around him.

In Medusa (After Caravaggio), Langhorne uses her own face as the basis for the historically maligned, beheaded Gorgon. The flip side of the piece features a doe with the same mane of snakes for hair.

And Caravaggio’s Medusa, a wronged woman transformed into a monster, is just a severed head, and yet her face is animated with fury, mouth open in a scream, brows creased. Image.