I like this sculpture. She is in a very annoyed stance. In the regular story it’s probably because she’s trying to figure out where to put all these bodies. ☠️ I think there is a secret story though. Medea is holding a cake knife. She is waiting for the cake for the party for her dead family. 😵💀
SHE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR 19 MINUTES FOR THAT CAKE AND DIDN’T EVEN GET THE RIGHT ONE 😡
In the recent years they use pointing machines and carving tools to carve stone. In the olden days they just used carving tools. They probably used machine stuff on this.

The Facts:
- William Wetmore Story (American, 1819–1895)
- About 1868–80 in Rome, Italy
- Material: Marble
- Museum purchase with funds donated by a friend of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture and the Curator’s Fund (1984.202)
- Gallery 233 (Penny and Jeff Vinik Gallery)