Michelangelo's Pieta

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Author name
Matthew Brennan
Source
Sketchfab
Polygon Count
469,920
Release Date
2016-06-14
License
Standard

Asset Overview

***Pieta*** by Michelangelo Buonarroti ca. 1547-1555 In the *Museo dell'Opera del Duomo*, in Florence, Italy. This *Pieta* is Michelangelo's penultimate sculpture. In 1555, upon finding a fault in the marble, the elderly Michelangelo destroyed the sculpture. In **1671** Cosimo III de'Medici purchased the reconstructed sculpture, and placed it in the crypt of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. In **1722** it was transferred to the Florence Duomo.