Renaissance Sculpture Takes Tumble at Met

What sound does glazed terra cotta make when hitting the polished stone floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Whatever it is, nobody was around to hear it, when late last night or early this morning, the museum’s late 15th-century relief sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel by Andrea della Robbia (pictured above) fell from its mount above a doorway in the European Paintings and Decorative Arts Galleries. The museum announced the accident in a