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Pieta

Carved in Carrara marble, La Pieta can be found in the first chapel to the right of the entrance to St Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is the only sculpture Michelangelo ever signed

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Pieta

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  1. PIETÀ

  2. La Pietà, the Renaissance sculpture, created by a young Michelangelo between 1497 and 1499, depicts the body of Jesus cradled by his mother Mary after the Crucifixion

  3. Carved in Carrara marble, La Pietàcan be found in the first chapel to the right of the entrance to St Peter's. It is the only sculpture Michelangelo ever signed

  4. Forty-seven years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an altar railing in St. Peter's Basilica and dealt 12 hammer blows to Michelangelo's Pieta, severely damaging the Renaissance masterpiece.

  5. To mark the attack on May 21, 1972, the Vatican Museums held a day-long seminar on May 21, 2013 on the statue, the incident, and what subsequently became one of the most delicate and controversial art restorations in history

  6. After a decade of investigation, art historians have concluded that a small terracotta statuette of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Jesus was, in fact, made by the Renaissance master Michelangelo. It’s believed that the small terracotta work was a maquette made by Michelangelo as a study for his world-famous Pietà (1498–99), which is housed at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

  7. The terracotta work resurfaced about 20 years ago, when it was acquired by an antiquarian in Northern Italy who, believing the piece to be worthless, kept it in a moldy box before selling it to a collector for next to nothing. The collector, acting on a hunch that it may have been a Michelangelo, contacted Roy Doliner, a U.S. art historian who specializes in Italian works of that era. Doliner gathered a team of Italian art historians who collectively scoured archives of the Renaissance era. The team found multiple instances of the terracotta model being attributed to Michelangelo in sources dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries

  8. The statue was originally coated in nine layers of bright paint (as was often the case with classical sculpture), but during its laborious, three-year restoration process, the paint was stripped, revealing the plain terracotta beneath. Analysis shows that the terracotta figurine is made from an unusual mix of clay and a mineral called dolomite—a mineral found in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, where Michelangelo frequently sourced his marble.

  9. It took three years to restore the tiny statue, which was covered in nine layers of paint and held together with bits of Scotch tape. It was originally attributed by Italian art experts to Andrea Bregno, one of the most celebrated sculptors of the 15th century. But Mr. Doliner is convinced that the exquisite detail in the statue, its age and references made to it in later paintings, prove that it was instead created by Michelangelo to convince a wealthy cardinal to give him the commission for the Pieta, which he eventually completed in 1499.

  10. Mr. Doliner is the author of The Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo's Defiant Masterpiece, in which he argued that Michelangelo hid a secret code in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel made up of mystical Jewish symbols and insults aimed at the pope.

  11. The historians’ claims were favourably received by L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper. “The terracotta served as a model for the 22-year-old Michelangelo for the funeral monument commissioned by the French cardinal Jean de Bilhères de Lagraulas, who wanted to leave a spiritual legacy to French Catholics,” the newspaper wrote in a lengthy review.

  12. Analysis also shows that the work was produced between 1473 and 1496, which makes perfect sense as it’s believed that this maquette was used to convince a French cardinal that Michelangelo should be the artist hired to sculpt the marble Pietà, which was completed in 1499

  13. Michelangelo was known to make preliminary terracotta studies before embarking on a marble sculpture, and they typically corresponded to an old Florentine measure of length known as the “bracciofiorentino” or “Florentine arm.” The Florentine arm translates to 58cm; the newly discovered work is 58.3cm long (22.95 inches)

  14. The statuette remains in private hands for the time being, but has gone on display in Paris, where it was already been seen by 200,000 visitors

  15. Pictures: © Aurelio Amendola & Internet All  copyrights  belong to their  respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2019 Sound Antonio Vivaldi - Stabat Mater in F minor, RV621 - Sara Mingardo, Concerto Italiano

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