CHRIST FROM THE PIETÀ By Michelangelo Click on image to view Overview In the face of the Savior, Michelangelo’s Pieta reveals only slight traces of the suffering endured. The expression is peaceful, relaxed and with lingering agony. But in the body of Christ, highly...
MEDICI MADONNA BY MICHELANGELO Click on Image to Enlarge Click on Image to Enlarge Click on Image to view Overview The Medici Madonna (1521–1534; height 83 inches) Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, in Florence.Michelangelo left this marble group of a Madonna and her child...
MADONNA OF THE STEPS BY MICHELANGELO Click on Image to Enlarge Click on Image to Enlarge Click on Image to view Overview MADONNA DELLA SCALA (MADONNA OF THE STAIRS ) The Madonna of the Steps; ca.1490-91; 22 x 15.5 inches) This is the earliest known sculpture by...
LORENZO DE’ MEDICI By Michelangelo Click on Image to Enlarge In 1519, Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Leo X and his cousin, Cardinal Giulio de Medici (later Pope Clement VII), to create the marble portraits of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici for the family’s...
Bacchus BY MICHELANGELO Click on Image to Enlarge Click on Image to Enlarge Five hundred years ago Michelangelo unveiled what would come to be regarded as one of the world’s great works of art. It was with Bacchus, his first heroic sized sculpture, that Michelangelo’s...
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