Since its creation in 1499, Michelangelo’s Pietà has inspired emotion, faith, and imitation through its elegant depiction of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Yet few know the secrets that are ...

A close-up of the copy of Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà, usually kept at the Vatican Museums. (photo: Ela Bialkowska / OKNO studio) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Arts & Entertainment March 7, 2022 VATICAN ...

Michelangelo carved the Bandini Pieta between 1547 and 1555, when he was nearly 80. It’s the third known Pieta by the Renaissance master. An earlier one is in the Vatican, near the entry of St ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — Michelangelo was an old man when he began working on a sculpture he envisioned for an altar for his own tomb: It was of a marble Pietà, depicting Jesus ...

Police, workers and officials from the city’s Department of Buildings look at a replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta ... “They will remove the Pieta no matter what,” Leja said, “unless ...

The statue — a marble replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta, depicting the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother, Mary, after the crucifixion — was taken from St. Adalbert Catholic Church ...

Michelangelo carved the Bandini Pieta between 1547-1555, when he was nearly 80. It’s the third known Pieta by the Renaissance master. An earlier one is in the Vatican, near the entry of St ...