Bernini’s Medusa is in San Francisco. Go and behold her.
Musei Capitolini in Rome has lent San Francisco one of their greatest treasures, the remarkable Baroque masterpiece “The Medusa” by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), one of art history’s finest and most productive sculptors and a virtuoso in Italian Baroque art and architecture. She was bestowed by a Cardinal to Rome in 1734 somewhat worn for…