Perseus and Medusa Benvenuto Cellini bronze, 18 feet high 1545-54 Photographed in Piazza della Signoria a square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Some distraction removal has been applied to the background.
See ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Baptistery
Sculpture of Face, Boboli Gardens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Tuscany, Italy The statue is called Tindaro Screpolato created by sculptor Igor Mitoraj in 1998.