Audio File length: 2.48
Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
English / USA Language: English / USA

Before you begin to visit the basilica, go straight into the first chapel to the right to admire the most famous work of art inside the basilica, Michelangelo's Pietà, which he created at the mere age of 23, immediately making him one of the top sculptors of his time. Starting with a motif of German origin (the Madonna sitting with the dead body of Christ on her knees), Michelangelo modeled the marble with an extraordinary finesse. The surfaces are polished and perfect, and the delicacy of young Mary's face provokes deep emotion. You can still see Michelangelo's name engraved along the band running across the Virgin's chest: Pietà will remain his only signed work.

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