"Sometimes on a whim I stop into the Bode Museum here to commune with a tiny clay sculpture of John the Baptist. It’s in a corner of a nearly always empty room, a bone-white bust, pretty and as androgynous as mid-1970s Berlin-addled David Bowie. The saint’s upturned eyes glow in the hard light through tall windows. Attributed to the 15th-century Luccan artist Matteo Civitali, the sculpture is all exquisite ecstasy and languor."
NYT: Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? (Multimedia), Wikipedia
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