Do not mess with Perseus.

He doesn’t play.

And he is not only out for blood, but he’ll take your head right along with it.

Who:  Benvenuto Cellini

What: Perseus with the Head of Medusa

When: c. 1545

Where: Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, Florence

Why: Because he wanted to.  Ha ha.  Kidding.  His patron commissioned it.

Wickedly, hatefully, mercilessly and brutally expressed. Undeniably gorgeous.

Some people (too many, alas; there, I said it!) come to Florence for the gelato.

Not me.

I come for the wicked beauty.   The wickeder, the better.  The more beautiful, even beyond wicked. And unquestionably better.