Museo Pietà Rondanini
Michelangelo’s *Rondanini Pietà* concentrates his final artistic thoughts into one unfinished marble work—he continued shaping it until 1564, working on it from 1552 and even hacking at the block with only days left in his life. The sculpture revisits an older subject: the Virgin Mary mourning over an emaciated dead Christ, a theme Michelangelo first explored in his 1499 *Pietà*. In this late version, the figures are elongated and roughened, a departure from the idealized Renaissance style and closer to the attenuated look often linked to Gothic sculpture and even Mannerism. Its name points to a long afterlife in Rome: for centuries it stood in the courtyard of the *Palazzo Rondanini*—also known as *Palazzo Rondinini*—before the work came to Milan. …
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