Michelangelo's 'Pieta' has overshadowed two other moving sculptures on the same subject by the Renaissance giant.
Michelangelo's casts of so-called"Rondanini" Pieta and the Vatican Pieta are seen during a preview of the exhibition"The three Michelangelo's Pieta" at the Cathedral Museum in Florence.FLORENCE - It is admired the world over as an exquisite depiction of maternal grief. But Michelangelo's"Pieta" has overshadowed two other moving sculptures on the same subject by the Renaissance giant.
Positioned to face each other in an intimate setting, there are striking contrasts between these variations, which mark different phases in the life of the artist, who died aged 88 in 1564. This sculpture was damaged by a Hungarian hammer-wielding attacker in 1972, and the restored work of art is now protected behind bulletproof glass.
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