Accademia Artists | Location | Opening Hours Tickets | Authorizations
Artists Sculptors | Painters | Music
Sculptors Michelangelo | Giambologna
Michelangelo David | Tomb Pope Julius II | Pietà - St. Matthew
Michelangelo's Palestrina Pietà and St. Matthew at Accademia Gallery in Florence in Italy
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Palestrina Pietà The Palestrina Pietà was attributed to Michelangelo in the absence of archives officially linking it to the artist.
The dead Christ slackening accentuated by his impressive musculature is a burden that requires to be sustained by considerable effort.
Michelangelo's sculpture of St Matthew had to be part of a series of the twelve apostles destined for the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
But only the statue of Saint Matthew was partly made.
A living Saint Matthew who tears himself off the stone.
Michelangelo David | Tomb Pope Julius II | Pietà - St. Matthew
Sculptors Michelangelo | Giambologna
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