Pieta di michelangelo buonarroti biography

At 21 years of age, Michelangelo made his first trip to Rome. Eager to study the great statues of antiquity and to secure important commissions, the young master from Florence was soon engaged in a work that would seal his destiny as the greatest living sculpture of his time and, perhaps, all time.

Michelangelo’s arrival in the Eternal City was fortunate because it coincided with an exhibition of newly unearthed sculptures and ruins of antiquity.

These newfound classical sculptures, nude and Herculean in proportion, celebrated the ideals of moral virtue, physical beauty, and truth.

Pieta di michelangelo buonarroti biography

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The discovery of these pieces represented a crucial bridge from the Gothic works of the Middle Ages to the inspired sculpture and painting of the early Renaissance.

Commissioning of the Pieta

A statue was commissioned for the tomb in St.

Peters of the French cardinal Jean de Billheres, who was a representative in Rome. According to the formal agreement, the Pieta` was to be R