Long before the snakes and the stony glare, Medusa was a mortal woman — sacred, beautiful, and doomed. Once a devoted priestess in Athena’s temple, her fate was sealed by divine wrath and mortal ...

The Raft of the Medusa might not be the Louvre's most famous painting, but it might be the most graphic. Painted by Théodore Géricault in 1818, this larger than life canvas stops visitors in its ...