by Michael Levin

Okay, I get it. By the time you got to Florence, on your 11-country, 12-day European tour, you were hot, tired, a little sick of museums and cathedrals, and thinking mostly about the tavernas and pure white sand beaches on the Greek islands. Dutifully, you filed by the David and Botticelli's Birth of Venus, but by then you were pretty much museumed out. Your best friend, the art freak, was trying to get you to look at the Della Robbia sculptures, but no sale. One more piece of art, and you were going to burst. We were all young once.

Here's the great news. Drop into Boston's Museum of Fine Arts by December 4 and you'll see what you were missing on your European Grand Tour. Okay, let's get serious. The new installation of fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian terra cotta sculpture will buckle your knees. It's that astounding.

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