by Rob Jollymore | Sep 14, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
David (Michelangelo) Circa 1501-4; height 16 ft 10 in. Michelangelo’s monumental David differs greatly from earlier interpretations of this subject by Donatello and Verrocchio. Whereas the earlier masters had depicted David victorious over the slain Goliath, many...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 12, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
Michelangelo’s Moses (ca. 1513-1516; height ~92.5 inches) San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome The powerful and majestic figure of Moses is depicted during the most important moment in his life. The plates of the Ten Commandments indicate that he has come from Mount...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 12, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
Saint Peter’s Pieta (1498-1499 69 inches) The Saint Peter’s Pieta is surely the most universally loved work of Michelangelo. With good reason, we admire the miraculous transformation of a giant piece of marble into a larger than life-size two-figure sculpture group....
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Rondanini Pieta (By Michelangelo ca.1552/53-64; height 74”) This is the last marble sculpture upon which Michelangelo worked during the last weeks of his life in 1564. It is now in the collection of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Daniele da Volterra wrote that...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Florentine Pietá, also known as “The Deposition” (1547–1553; height: 93 inches) Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. Michelangelo is estimated to have been 73 years old when he began work on this Pieta, which was destined to be placed in Santa Maria del Fiore, the...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Medici Madonna (1521–1534; height 83 inches) Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, in Florence. Michelangelo left this marble group of a Madonna and her child unfinished in his Florentine studio when he departed for Rome in 1534. Although it was not installed until years...
