Since its creation in 1499, Michelangelo’s Pietà has inspired emotion, faith, and imitation through its elegant depiction of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Yet few know the secrets that are ...

The Madonna and Child — a young Mary holding her son, Jesus, as an infant — is the prevailing depiction of Mary throughout cultures and time. The Pietà, Italian for “pity” or “compassion,” depicts ...

The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

MILAN - Few know that legendary Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo spent his final days completing a marble Virgin and Christ sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà. A departure from his earlier ...

At the foot of a curving staircase in the little modernistic Villa Sanseverino stands the last privately owned Michelangelo in the world, the Pieta Rondanini.* Every month, dozens of visitors go ...