Francesco Maffei, "Perseo e Medusa", Galleria dell'Accademia, Venezia

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This pendant was kept in Budapest until the beginning of twentieth century and ended up in an American collection. It dates from 1660, and it shows the free and whimiscal imagination of Maffei, who was raised on the innovative pictorial work of Fetti, Liss, and Strozzi.