• {{Information |Description=MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Study for a Deposition Red chalk on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |Source...
  • According to Vasari, Michelangelo made the Florence Pietà to decorate his tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
  • The Florence Pieta, also known as The Deposition or The Bandini Pieta, is an Italian High Renaissance marble sculpture created by Michelangelo between 1547...
  • This image, although created some couple hundred years before The Deposition, echoes that very rawness and powerful presence displayed in Michelangelo’s work.
  • The Deposition (also called the Bandini Pietà or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo.
  • 2-291 The Deposition sculpture by Michelangelo done between 1547 and 1555 originally in marble depicting Nicodemus, the dead body of Christ, Mary Magdalene...
  • The deposition housed at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence and known also as the Bandini Pietà, on the other hand, was meant to decorate the tomb...
  • The Deposition The Deposition (1547 – 1553) by Michelangelo, located in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence, Italy; © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia...
  • The theme of Michelangelo’s statue was Pietà, which means pity and piety (Latin) and referenced the aftermath of the crucifixion of the venerated biblical figure...
  • I found this sculpture interesting because Michelangelo tried to destroy this piece of work because he found the marble was defective.