This Perseus, by Canova, is in the Belvedere of the Vatican. It is a
beautifully finished statue in which the artist evidently imitated the
Apollo Belvedere. The head of Medusa is that of a young and lovely
woman, with the serpents arranged about her face like curling hair--yet
Canova has succeeded in giving her that expression of “freezing disdain
which pierces the very soul.”
[Illustration]
Hebe.
“The Ever Young.”
“_Hebe honored them of all
Ministered nectar and from cups of gold
They pledged each other._”
--HOMER.