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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Pietà Rondanini (unfinished)

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

Rough marble emerges from stone, revealing two intertwined figures locked in grief—mother cradling son in an unfinished embrace. Michelangelo's final work abandons Renaissance polish for raw emotional intensity, channeling his aging spirituality into abstracted, almost modern forms of suffering and devotion.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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