Description

Michelangelo’s Pieta Marble Statue – medium

Dimensions:  330 L x 170mmW x 420mm H

Please note that all our Marble Art Statues are made on order. There is a lead time of approximately 10 working days.

Our statues are priced for


“Cast Marble White”.

Hand Painted





at an additional cost – please email us orders@catholic-shop.co.za for a quotation on any one of the alternative options.

The



Pietà



(1498–1499) is a

masterpiece

of

Renaissance


sculpture

by

Michelangelo

Buonarroti, housed in

St. Peter’s Basilica

in

Vatican City

. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the

French


cardinal


Jean de Billheres

, who was a representative in Rome. The sculpture, in

Carrara marble

, was made for the cardinal’s funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.

This famous work of art depicts the body of

Jesus

on the lap of his mother

Mary

after the

Crucifixion

. The theme is of Northern origin, popular by that time in France but not yet in Italy. Michelangelo’s interpretation of the

Pietà

is unique to the precedents. It is an important work as it balances the

Renaissance

ideals of

classical beauty

with naturalism. The statue is one of the most highly finished works by Michelangelo.

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