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 ...

While now displayed as a sacred object for prayer in a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary at St. Peter’s Basilica, this placement contrasts with Michelangelo’s initial vision of the sculpture as a ...

with only three oak benches placed right in front of the sculpture and a book stand on which historical information on it is reported. Opposite the museum’s entrance, a cabinet contains the death mask ...

Since there were no Michelangelo sculptures in the United States ... Under the headline “Fair Sees Pieta as Top Feature,” journalist Gay Talese credited Cardinal Spellman for his eighteen months of ...

In 1545, the year in which he turned seventy, Michelangelo Buonarroti completed his last public sculpture, the tomb of Pope Julius II in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Others might have ...