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Answer : PIETA
In 1497, a cardinal named Jean de Billheres commissioned Michelangelo to create a work of sculpture to go into a side chapel at Old St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The resulting work – the Pieta – would be so successful that it helped launch Michelangelo’s career unlike any previous work he had done.
Michelangelo claimed that the block of Carrara marble he used to work on this was the most “perfect” block he ever used, and he would go on to polish and refine this work more than any other statue he created.
The scene of the Pieta shows the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Christ after his crucifixion, death, and removal from the cross, but before he was placed in the tomb. This is one of the key events from the life of the Virgin, known as the Seven Sorrows of Mary, which were the subject of Catholic devotional prayers. The subject matter was one which would have probably been known by many people, but in the late fifteenth century it was depicted in artworks more commonly in France and Germany than in Italy.
More Clues
- NINJA TURTLE Michelangelo, e.g.
- ARTE Work of Michelangelo, e.g.
- ITALIAN ART Works by Raphael and Michelangelo, e.g.
- ART The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo e.g.
- RENAISSANCE Period in Europe during which Michelangelo sculpted David
- ARTISTS Michelangelo and Monet, e.g.
- ANTONIONI “Blowup” director Michelangelo
- HIT THE CEILING …like Michelangelo?
- MADONNAANDCHILD Michelangelo subject
- STONEMASON Michelangelo was one
- PIETA Michelangelo work in the Vatican
- LANOTTE Middle of a Michelangelo Antonioni film trilogy
- SCULPTOR Michelangelo or Rodin
- DAVID Michelangelo subject
- LEAH Sculpture by Michelangelo
- SISTINE CHAPEL Site of some Michelangelo artwork
- PIETAS Some Michelangelo works
- FRESCOES Some works by Michelangelo
- MOSES Subject of a Michelangelo sculpture
- M D I Year that Michelangelo began work on “David”
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