The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and logistics. The book cover of ‘Our Lady of the World’s Fair’ by Ruth D. Nelson, ...
The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master. By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — Michelangelo was an old man ...
Florentine artist Michelangelo’s famed Pietà sculpture has for centuries drawn countless visitors, art lovers and Christian pilgrims to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, where the monolith ...
The theme of Christ’s death followed Michelangelo through his whole life. Beauty and goodness, and grief and pity, alive in the dead marble,” began a poem by one spectator awestruck by Michelangelo’s ...
As war rages in Ukraine and the pandemic lingers, Michelangelo’s celebrated Vatican Pietà — and two lesser-known figures he also sculpted — can be deeply meaningful to a pain-wracked world, says a ...
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