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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, where two intertwined figures—mother cradling son—materialize through incomplete carving. Michelangelo's final work reveals his evolving spirituality: abandoning Renaissance perfection for raw, emotional transcendence expressed through unfinished form itself.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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