While I was away, the Wall Street Journal published a short “Icon” article I wrote about Bernini’s Medusa, at left, which is on view at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It’s on loan from the Capitoline Museums in Rome, the second in a series, as I wrote.

It’s a beautiful piece, as you can see, but part of the story had to be left out because of the brevity required by Icon articles. (FULL ARTICLE: Judith H. Dobrzynski, ArtsJournal.com)