You can visit it virtually here. 3. Michelangelo carved the Pietà from a single slab of marble. Specifically, he used Carrara marble, a white and blue stone named for the Italian region where ...

The masterpiece, carved out of Carrara marble, was finished before the Italian artist’s 25th birthday. Over the course of more than 60 years, Michelangelo created two more sculptures on the same ...

By his early twenties, Michelangelo had already carved the Pieta, a sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the lifeless body of Jesus. It was a masterpiece, brimming with emotion.

Following a two-year restoration effort, a haunting sculpture Michelangelo made for his own tomb is once more on public display in Italy. A Pietà carved from a single block of marble, the artwork ...

“He carved it thinking of it as a testimonial to ... the Bandini Pietà is the third and final pieta that Michelangelo worked on during his career. “It’s the last of the great Michelangelo ...

“Michelangelo’s other statues were carved in good Carrara marble, but this is bad Carrara marble.” Rosa says that an isotope test will be performed to determine exactly which quarry the ...