Cast Gallery catalogue number: B206b

Head of Gorgo, for the first time shown as a beautiful woman, with wings in her hair and snakes around her face.
The original head was probably on an aigis or shield.

• Plaster cast: Height: 39cm.
• Copy of a marble head.
• The head:
  • is known as the Medusa Rondanini.
  • is a version of an original of uncertain date: mid 5th to the 3rd century BC is the possible range.
  • was purchased for Munich in 1811 from the Rondanini family who had owned it since at least the mid 17th century.
  • is now in Munich, Glyptothek, 252.