Pietà: Overall view
Date
Circa 1910
Location
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Commissioned in 1497 by the French Cardinal Jean Villiers de La Grolais (ca. 1430-1499) for his own tomb, it was begun the following year and was finished by 1500. It signals the beginning of Michelangelo's maturity as a sculptor.
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