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[1] [2] The name Rondanini refers to the fact that the sculpture stood for centuries in the courtyard at the Palazzo Rondanini (also known as Palazzo Rondinini) in Rome. [3] Certain sources point out that biographer Giorgio Vasari had referred to this Pietà in 1550, suggesting that the first version may already have been underway at that time. [4]
The various frescoed rooms of the museum house an armoury, a tapestry room, some funerary monuments, Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà and two medieval portals. The Sala Verde ('green room') displays 15th- and 16th-century sculptures, the collection of arms of the Castello Sforzesco and the Portale del Banco Mediceo , a gate removed from Via Bossi.
The left hand of Christ creates the illusion that the two worlds occupy the same space. The incisive and graphic lines of the painting (in the hair of John the Evangelist, painted one by one, and in the vein of Christ's arm) recall Mantegna's style, but the painting's use of color and light is different.
Pietà at Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. Soumaya Museum, [1] Mexico City, Mexico; Cathedral of Our Lady of Refuge, Matamoros, Mexico; Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Anniston, Alabama [2] St Anne Roman Catholic Parish, Gilbert, Arizona; Cathedral of St. Andrew (Little Rock, Arkansas), Little Rock, Arkansas; Cathedral of Christ the Light ...
The Diocesan Museum of Milan (Museo Diocesano di Milano in Italian) is an art museum in Milan housing a permanent collection of sacred artworks, especially from Milan and Lombardy. [1]
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