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Location of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are more than 600 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Philadelphia, including 67 National Historic Landmarks.
The Pietà (Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; "[Our Lady of] Pity"; 1498–1499) is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, for which it was made.
Bacchus (Michelangelo) David (Michelangelo) The Deposition (Michelangelo) Cristo della Minerva; Moses (Michelangelo) Pietà (Michelangelo) Rondanini Pietà; David; Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius; Ecstasy of St Theresa; Leonardo's horse, statue of a Horse in Milan based upon a design by Leonardo da Vinci from 500 years before.
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture is also unique in the fact that it is the only one of his works that he ever signed. Upon hearing that visitors thought it had been sculpted by Cristoforo Solari , a competitor, he carved his signature into Mary's sash as "MICHAELA[N]GELUS BONAROTUS FLORENTIN[US] FACIEBA[T]": "Michelangelo Buonarroti the ...
Location of birth/death: Caprese Michelangelo: Rome: Work period: from 1487 until 1564 Work location: Florence (1487–1494), Bologna (1494–1496), Rome (1496–1501
This is a list of replicas of Michelangelo's 1498–1499 statue, Piet ...
This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [ 1 ] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [ 2 ] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]