Medusa

Medusa is described by Leonardo da Vinci's biographer Vasari as being one of his earliest works, painted before 1500, and is thought to be a motif he painted twice: once on a wooden shield, and once with oils on canvas. Either or both paintings are believed to have been held in the collection of Cosimo I de' Medici of Tuscany, the second Duke of Florence between 1553-59, but was however lost in the second half of the 16th century. By combining textual research and DALL·E 2, we present the world’s first AI resurrection of da Vinci’s ‘Medusa’, more than 450 years after its disappearance.