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The sculpture was purported to be an altarpiece for his funeral chapel within Old Saint Peter's Basilica. This very chapel of Saint Petronilla was later demolished and the image was later moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side after the entrance of the new basilica, in the 18th century. [2]
Michelangelo Buonarotti's Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica, 1498–1499.Crowned by the Pontifical decree of Pope Urban VIII in 1637.. The Pietà (Italian pronunciation:; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the mortal body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross.
The Deposition (also called the Bandini Pietà or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo.The sculpture, on which Michelangelo worked between 1547 and 1555, depicts four figures: the dead body of Jesus Christ, newly taken down from the Cross, Nicodemus [1] (or possibly Joseph of Arimathea), Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.
The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT. Full-sized cast-plaster copy of the original sculpture. Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Quebec City, Canada; Pietà at Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. Soumaya Museum, [1] Mexico City, Mexico; Cathedral of Our Lady of Refuge, Matamoros, Mexico
This final sculpture revisited the theme of the Virgin Mary mourning over the emaciated body of the dead Christ, which he had first explored in his Pietà of 1499. Like his late series of drawings of the Crucifixion and the sculpture of the Deposition of Christ intended for his own tomb, it was produced at a time when Michelangelo's sense of ...
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The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.It was formerly attributed to Michelangelo, but now it is mostly considered to have been completed by someone else, such as Niccolò Menghini [1] or Gian Lorenzo Bernini. [2]
Pieta in its location in the side chapel in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The sculpture is inspired by Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietà, of which it reproduces the composition, with the figures of Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene and Mary found in a zigzagging fashion in a pyramidal arrangement. The pathos of Meštrović's work is very different ...