# The Uffizi Medusa shield is a completed late-1590s ceremonial picture for the Medici-linked Roman market

Date: 1598

## The fact

The Uffizi’s Medusa page prints [Caravaggio](/people/caravaggio)’s ceremonial shield as a completed late-1590s object later in Florentine Medici collections. Del Monte brokerage is in the received file.

It is one event.

## Context

A parade shield of a beheaded Gorgon is a court-ceremonial object, stored as knowledge-access of the image, not as a unique violence-of-myth welfare series.

Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Lived 1571–1610. Patrons, chapel rectors, the Order of St John, and later museum pages share the file. Legal incidents are stored as documented process, not as later legend. Ranuccio Tomassoni is not affiliated_with. Complex contribution is required except where the killing is direct.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Uffizi and Met Heilbrunn independently describe the Medusa.

Official or archival record: Uffizi — Medusa (Caravaggio) (https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/medusa; Gallerie degli Uffizi).

## Significance

A completed ceremonial painted shield is a cultural-access path. It is not 1610.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Medusa as a dated Caravaggio object in the Uffizi file. Not established: unique later-tourist coefficients as his act.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio.

They are not a public rating.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not treat a 21st-century Uffizi URL year as 1598. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.

## People

- Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/medusa
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-uffizi-medusa