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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Pietà Rondanini (unfinished)

🖼 Pietà Rondanini (unfinished), 1552-64
Marble, height 195 cm
Milan, Italy

Rough marble emerges from shadow, two figures intertwined in grief—mother cradling her son's limp form with tender anguish. Michelangelo's final sculpture, left unfinished at his death, strips away decorative detail to expose raw human suffering and spiritual transcendence through pure stone.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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