Onde esta a pieta de michelangelo biography summary

It belongs to those masterpieces that over the centuries have written the evolution of the history of art and, in some ways, also of human feeling. The Carrara marble statue was commissioned in to Michelangelo, in his early twenties, by a group of cardinals, with the intercession of the banker Jacopo Galli, who acted as an intermediary for the young artist.

Michelangelo personally visited the Carrara marble quarries to choose the block of marble from which he would free his statue. This is because it seems that some visitors who came to admire the statue did not believe it was his work. The act of violence was so shocking that that evening the Canons of San Pietro moved in procession towards the Chapel of Santa Petronilla, singing the Miserere , as a sign of mourning.

After a reflection on how it was better to act, whether to leave the scarred work, as a denunciation of the modern world, or rather to restore it, and how, it was decided to reconstruct the face and arm of the Virgin in its entirety, trying to return to the perfection of the work original. In the Holyart catalogue, you will find many reproductions of this exceptional work, in all materials, from Valgardena wood to fibreglass , to synthetic marble or marble dust , and with dimensions suitable for any type of environment.

They were objects of devotion especially in the liturgy of Good Friday, when the faithful recalled the pains of the Passion, identifying themselves with the sufferings of Mary and Jesus to find comfort in their own troubles.

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Michelangelo was certainly inspired by the Vesperbilder , however revolutionising their structure, style and sentiment. Furthermore, the severe, gaunt forms of the Vesperbilder are replaced by the ideal beauty of the faces typical of the Renaissance, by the soft draperies , by the naturalness with which the bodies rest on each other, in an enveloping, moving way.

One of the most striking features of the Vatican Pieta is the smoothness of the marble , to which the artist seems to have devoted a very long time. Contemplating the face of Mary or the body of Christ it is difficult to believe that they are made of marble, so smooth and shiny they appear. In the past, this polishing meant that the statue was clearly visible even in the penumbra of the chapel.

The first was one of the last sculptures by Michelangelo, now seventy, perhaps destined for his own tomb. The artist himself, in a moment of frustration, hit it by breaking it in several places and abandoning it. The second was his last job, to which he devoted himself with his last strength until shortly before his death.