This Might Just Be The Most Remarkable Sculpture Ever Made YouTube

The sculpture is called Modesty.
Let's start with the man who commissioned it.
Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, was one of those 18th-century aristocrats who makes you feel like an underachiever in the most spectacular possible way. He was a soldier, an inventor, a writer, a Freemason, an alchemist, and depending on who you asked - either a genius or a sorcerer. Probably both. He invented a waterproof fabric. He was excommunicated by the Pope. He reportedly developed a process for making colored fireworks so vivid that witnesses were at a loss to explain them. He had a reputation in Naples for doing things that defied possibility, and he seemed to enjoy that reputation enormously.

He was also, underneath all the brilliance and the brimstone, a man who had lost his mother before he could remember her face.