Michelangelo’s exact job description for the project was to create “the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better.” While other sculptors might have ...

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The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

Faithful walk past Michelangelo’s Pieta’ at the end of a mass celebrated ... resurrecting from the dead before striking the sculpture’s marble 15 times with a hammer. The New York Times ...

The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors ... to put their Pieta up for sale.

But it's the purity of the white marble, imported from Macedonia, and the intricacy of the gold-leaf floral inlays, that leave a lasting impression. Score: 6.76 Calin Stan/Shutterstock Built between ...

Through its intricate detail, the young artist proved that he could turn lifeless blocks of marble alive. advertisement He was an absolute perfectionist as well. While sculpting the Pieta, he had ...