1. Michelangelo Pietà 1499 marble Michelangelo was twenty-three when he sculpted this pieta. Christ and Mary’s bodies are not in proportion—why? She is represented as a young fourteen year old even though she would have been approximately forty- eight when Christ died—why?

2. Michelangelo detail: Pietà 1499 marble

4. Michelangelo Pietà Rondanini 1552-64 marble Castello Sforzesco, Milan Michelangelo worked on this pieta six days before his death at age 89. This work is unfinished, but it seems to complete the argument begun in 1499.

5. Michelangelo Pietà Rondanini 1552-64 marble Castello Sforzesco, Milan

6. Michelangelo detail: Pietà Rondanini 1552-64 marble Castello Sforzesco, Milan