Medusa the Gorgon

The painting shows Medusa the Gorgon with her victim. Despair is written on the victim's face, and echoed in the gesture of her hands. One hand reaches out, as if to show how badly she wants to flee. The other tries to free itself from the snakes that have bound her movements.

In the background are her other victims — warriors who came for the head of the woman Poseidon once loved. Medusa's own face holds anger and a kind of obsession.