i guess Savonarola looks like this because he got hanged... if you look the sculpture it resembles a death by hanging
i like the clay ones the most, Judas Iscariot is really well made that it looks a real person... the face is funny seems like saying "i did nothing!"
He got hanged, that's right but this sculpture is not about that, I don't see the rope around his neck or the marks.
Besides, I went back to read the article I mentioned in my post and this is what it says about him:
The artist depicts Savonarola as completely blind. The absurd form of expression is most appropriate to convey the unusual behavior of the phantom, who turns inward, into his fever dreams, with a long neck, a thin bone, a crooked nose, and pointed ears. Only the sculptural treatment of the monk's robe remains attractive. He could not have caricatured the figure of the fanatical Dominican monk more sharply than this.
So it's a caricature after all 😂
Yes, looks like it. A bit of humor is added. But it's not a bad thing. You'll see the rest, which are even more funnier. Coming soon 😎