The Madonna della Pietà is a sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the “Sixth Sorrow” of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture carved by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now enshrined within Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same subject by the Florentine artist.
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Year: 1498-1499
Type: Marble
Subject: Jesus & Mary
Time Period: Renaissance
Size: 174 cm × 195 cm (68.5 in × 76.8 in)
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Year: 1510-1511
Material: Chalk Sketch
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) is a 1511 drawing by Michelangelo. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This drawing is a double-sided preparatory sketch for the painting of the Libyan Sibyl as part Sistine Chapel commission. The recto (or front) side of this chalk drawing displays a young male figure twisting over his left-hand shoulder while holding up an imaginary object. We now know (based on the final painting in the Sistine Chapel) that the sibyl holds open a large book. Even though the finished figure is in fact a woman, the sketch shows emphasis on the model’s muscles and definition of his male physique.
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