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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.
A depiction of the tomb effigy of the statue's commissioner, the French Ambassador to Rome, Cardinal Jean de Lagraulas. The statue was originally commissioned by the former Bishop of Condom, Cardinal Jean de Villiers du Lagraulas. The sculpture was intended to be an altarpiece for his funeral chapel within Old Saint Peter's Basilica.
Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (in Italian), Night and Day: c. 1526 – 1534 Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence: Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (in Italian), Dusk and Dawn [3] c. 1524 – 1534 Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence: Apollo: c. 1530 Museo Nazionale del Bargello: Marble height 146 ...
The exact date of execution of the statue is unknown, but it is usually related to the project for the tomb of Julius II.It is thought to have been intended for one of the lower niches of one of the last projects for the tomb, perhaps that of 1532 for which the so-called Captives or "Provinces" now in the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence may have also been made.
The Rondanini Pietà is a marble sculpture that Michelangelo worked on from 1552 until the last days of his life, in 1564. Several sources indicate that there were actually three versions, with this one being the last.
In 1511 he sculpted the tomb of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. From 1516 dates the tomb of the royal archivist, John Young, whom he also represented in a bust preserved in the National Portrait Gallery in London. He was also commissioned by Henry VIII for his own tomb and that of his wife Catherine of Aragon in 1518. Despite the ...
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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]