The sculpture has been criticized for Michelangelo’s depiction of Mary ... what's best—leaving it as it is (like Cleveland’s The Thinker, which was mangled in a bombing) or altering the ...

She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...