Medusa Tondo

This artwork features the iconic Faversham Patera, an ancient Roman bronze libation bowl from the 1st Century AD, distinguished by the relief of Medusa's (Gorgoneion) face at its centre. The composition highlights the patinated bronze with intricate inlays in silver and niello along the border, capturing the vessel's historical craftsmanship. Set against a muted beige background, soft abstractions in warm earth tones frame the patera, accentuating the vessel’s classical form and mystic symbolism as an apotropaic talisman against evil.