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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]
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova, 1798-1801 (Vatican Museums, Rome). The Medusa Rondanini was formerly exhibited in Palazzo Rondanini [2] in the upper end of via del Corso, Rome, where it was overlooked by the great art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, perhaps distracted by Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà in the same collection.
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
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The Dying Slave is a sculpture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo.Created between 1513 and 1516, it was to serve with another figure, the Rebellious Slave, at the tomb of Pope Julius II. [1]
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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]
Detail of Mary's face. The work was painted for the church of the convent of San Giusto alle mura together with the Agony in the Garden and a Crucifixion.Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari saw them in side altars of the church of San Giovanni Battista alla Calza, after the original location had been destroyed during the Siege of Florence in 1529.