Eight stories of Michelangelo’s Pietà
Twenty-something Michelangelo Buonarroti spent two long years of sacrifice to transform a single block of marble into work that ‘no artist could better.’
6 min readApr 29, 2022
In 1499, a young sculptor from Florence completed a statue he referred to as ‘the heart’s image.’ Two years previous, Michelangelo di Lodovico…
