I'm kicking off the blog with Medusa - because there are tons of iterations of both her and the Perseus myth (in case you aren't familiar with it, here it is on wikipedia) across the centuries, I'm starting with some examples of figure sculpture depicting Perseus with Medusa's severed head.
Pomeroy - Bronze - 19th Century
Bernini - Marble - 1630
Gerhard - Bronze - 1590
Gerhard - Bronze - 1590
Cellini - Bronze - 1554
Cellini - Bronze - 1554 [alternate view]
Canova - Marble - 1801 - Rome
Salvador Dalí - [date?] - Bronze - Marbella, Spain
All of these are great examples of contrapposto [weight shift in the figure] (especially the Cellini and Gerhard pieces) and make excellent use of space. Dalí (whose piece is undoubtedly an ode to and play on these earlier works) manages to strongly preserve the archetypal narrative even with the reduction and manipulation of forms-
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