\u201cThe casts don\u2019t look out of place next to the Florentine original\u201d, explains Barbara Jatta<\/strong>, director of the Vatican Museums, \u201cnot only because they were carried out to perfection a few decades ago by masterful artisans, but above all because, in a time of much debate around NFT (Non-Fungible Token) and DOC.NFT (Digital Original Copy NFT) reproductions, they bear witness to the need for reproducing universal masterpieces of faith and art so they can be spread to a wider audience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timothy Verdon<\/strong>, director of the Opera del Duomo Museum, commented on how the comparison between these three works \u201callows us to measure the stylistic growth of Buonarroti in the 50 years that separate the youthful Piet\u00e0 from the other two\u2026it also helps us to grasp the maturation of Michelangelo\u2019s thoughts for the sacred subject between the late 15th century and the mid 16th century, focusing on the connection between life and art in the faithful sculptor who, for much of his career, was at the service of the popes and therefore a privileged interpreter of the demands of a Church in dynamic change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vatican Piet\u00e0 (1498-99)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Cardinal Jean Bilh\u00e8ers de Lagraulas commissioned the young Buonarroti to depict \u201cthe Virgin Mary, dressed, with the Dead Christ naked in her arms\u201d, completed close to the Jubilee of 1500. The Florentine sculptor devoted himself to the theme of maternal pain and to the mystery of the Incarnation, making an impression at the time for the beauty of the work, but also prompting criticism for portraying Mary as so youthful that it was deemed unsuitable. The masterpiece was placed in the chapel of Santa Petronilla shortly before 1500 and was later moved to St.Peter\u2019s before being moved to the right of the nave in the 18th century, where it can still be admired today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bandini Piet\u00e0 (from 1547)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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ani, before being sold to Francesco Bandini in 1561. Michelangelo intended that the work would be used for his own funerary monument in Santa Croce in Florence, but the work remained in the Bandini Villa in Montecavallo, and was purchased by Cosimo III de\u2019 Medici in 1674, who had it placed in the basement of San Lorenzo. In 1722, the Florentine Piet\u00e0 was transferred to Santa Maria del Fiore and it has been housed in the Opera del Duomo Museum since 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rondanini Piet\u00e0 (1552-53)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Dating to 1552 and 1553, Michelangelo is said to have worked on this piece until the final days of his life. The work can be interpreted as the result of a long journey through art and faith that culminates in this ghostly representation of Jesus and Mary, with the two figures appearing almost detached from the ground and reaching upwards, seeming to reflect on the Resurrection and the Assumption. In 1744, the Piet\u00e0 was purchased from the Marquis Giuseppe Rondinini and arrived in Milan, where it has been kept in Castello Sforzesco since 1952.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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