File:Hosmer Medusa MIA 7629.jpg

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Harriet Hosmer: Medusa   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Harriet Hosmer  (1830–1908)  wikidata:Q448214 s:en:Author:Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
 
Harriet Hosmer
Alternative names
Harriet G. Hosmer; H. G. Hosmer; Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Description American sculptor and artist
Date of birth/death 9 October 1830 Edit this at Wikidata 21 February 1908 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Watertown Edit this at Wikidata Watertown Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1852 Edit this at Wikidata–1899 Edit this at Wikidata
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Rome; United Kingdom; Cambridge; Watertown Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q448214
Title
Medusa
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Harriet Hosmer is widely recognized today as one of the first and most skilled female sculptors in America. She was particularly interested in the historic plight of women, which is seen in her extraordinary bust of Medusa, created in 1854. In Greek mythology, Medusa was a beautiful girl cursed by Athena, who mutated her into a vile, homely Gorgon. Medusa's hair turned to snakes and she gained the power to petrify men. Hosmer's Medusa is compassionately rendered in a fixed state of transformation, with snakes intertwining her lovely hair. In addition, Medusa bears two feathered wings, reminiscent of the winged horse Pegasus that was born from her neck after she was beheaded.
Date circa 1854
date QS:P571,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Marble
Dimensions 27.2 × 21 × 9.5 in (69.2 × 53.3 × 24.1 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q1700481
Current location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Accession number
2003.125
Credit line The Walter C. and Mary C. Briggs Purchase Fund
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The author died in 1908, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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Nederlands: Marmeren buste van Medusa (ca. 1854), door Harriet Hosmer Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
Date by 2015
date QS:P,+2015-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2015-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Minneapolis Institute of Art [1]
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Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by its author, The Walter C. and Mary C. Briggs Purchase Fund. This applies worldwide.
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The Walter C. and Mary C. Briggs Purchase Fund grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

This file, which was originally posted to Minneapolis Institute of Art, was reviewed on 12 April 2019 by reviewer Roy17, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.

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