To achieve this goal, he hired Michelangelo to make a memorial for his tomb that would capture a scene that was popular in Northern European art at the time: the tragic moment of the Virgin Mary ...
From Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo ... the pope approved the sculpture’s loan. On March 29, 1962, the New York Times broke the news: the Pietà was coming to the fair. Under the ...