An sorrow story about Pieta statue life size.
The Pietà is the only work Michelangelo ever work. In his Lives of the Artists, the art historian tells an interesting tale behind this signature. He carve on a sash along Mary’s chest. According to his report, shortly after its installation. Some visitors from Lombardy come to admire the sculpture. Attempted to identify the artist behind it. After much debate, they conclude that it was the work of their fellow countryman, hunchback of Milan. Michelangelo overheard this conversation. He decide to hide in the church one night and carve his name on the statue. However, it appears more likely that Michelangelo simply follow the custom of Tuscan painters of the time; A tradition he later abandon.
Despite immediately well-receive and admire, the Pieta did receive some criticism for the particularly youthful depiction of the Virgin Mary, who resembles an adolescent. Michelangelo is do intentionally , reveal his biographers, and there is a theological explanation behind it. The incorruptible Virgin, the immaculate conception, she is the symbol of youth that never withers; the artist also take inspiration from the verses of Dante’s “O Virgin mother, daughter of thy son.
Pieta statue
The Pieta has another unusual feature, only this one is much harder to spot: Christ has an extra tooth, a fifth incisor. Other name “the tooth of sin” and in the works of other Renaissance artists it is a trait attributed to negative characters. On the other hand, it give an extra tooth since, upon his death, he take upon himself the sins of the world.
The marble of the sculpture is so shiny, it was said that Michelangelo spent as much time polishing his masterpiece as he did sculpting it. This desire to give the statue such luminosity was probably to contrast the darkness of the Chapel of Saint Petronilla. More about to …
