Michelangelo is one of the best known and best sculptors of all time. Everyone recognizes his David, this image attracts thousands of visitors a day. Michelangelo has made many sculptures in his life, and in this post, we list the best and best-known for you. Read on for the 5 famous images of Michelangelo!
The Rondanini Pietà is an unfinished, marble sculpture that Michelangelo worked on from around 1550 until the last days of his life, in 1564. The statue can be seen in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. As the last image of the artist, the Rondanini Pietà refers to Mary mourning over the body of her son Jesus. Michelangelo worked this theme out three or four times, for the first time in his famous Pietà from 1499.
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Pitti Tondo is a marble bas-relief of the Virgin and Child. It was produced between 1503 and 1504 and can now be viewed at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.
The Cristo Della Minerva, also known as Christ the Redeemer, the risen Christ or Christ carrying the cross, is a marble sculpture made between 1515 and 1521. The statue is in the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva church, in Rome, to the left of the main altar. The statue was praised by artist Sebastiano del Piombo who made the later famous statement that "the knee of Christ is worth more than the rest of Rome".
The originally naked statue was provided with a loincloth in the Baroque period because the nude provoked protest at this prominent place in the church.
The Florence Pietà (also known as the Descent from the Cross or the Pietà del Duomo) is a marble, unfinished, sculpture located in the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, in Florence. The statue, which Michelangelo worked on between 1547 and 1553, was intended by him for his own burial monument in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, but never ended up there. Click here to buy marble god statue online in Jaipur.
The artist himself broke the statue in a rage when during the work it became apparent that the marble was not in good condition. As a result, the left leg of the Christ figure is still missing. A student of Michelangelo, Tiberio Calcagni, has restored the work and added the figure of Mary Magdalene on the left.
The Madonna with Child, also known as the Bruges Madonna, is a marble sculpture of Mary with the child Jesus. The statue, preserved in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, is known as the only sculpture by Michelangelo that left Italy during his lifetime. Michelangelo made the statue between 1501 and 1504, just after he had made his famous Pietà. The image in Bruges, therefore, has similarities in style characteristics with that image, for example in the face of Mary, but also with the way the clothing is designed. The statue was supposedly intended for the Piccolomini altar in the Cathedral of Siena for which Michelangelo also made a few other statues.
The statue was acquired for 4000 florins by Giovanni and Alessandro Moscheroni (Mouscron, Moucheron). The image left Belgium twice. The first time in 1794 when the French occupier robbed it and brought it to Paris. After Napoleon's defeat, it returned to Bruges on January 3, 1816.
During the withdrawal of the German troops in 1944, the statue was picked up in the middle of the night from 6 to 7 September and, wrapped in a mattress, carried away in a truck with the Red Cross emblem, together with a dozen paintings from the same church. The shipment arrived in Germany via the Netherlands. In 1945 everything was found in a salt mine in the Austrian Altaussee. The Madonna returned to Belgium in mid-1945, and after being exhibited for a few months at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, it returned to Bruges and to the Church of Our Lady on 12 November 1945.
