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The Deposition (also called the Bandini Pietà or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo.The sculpture, on which Michelangelo worked between 1547 and 1555, depicts four figures: the dead body of Jesus Christ, newly taken down from the Cross, Nicodemus [1] (or possibly Joseph of Arimathea), Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.
Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...
Michelangelo's David. Michelangelo Buonarroti, also a disciple of the Florentine school, summarizes in his person almost all the sculptural art of his time in Italy (1475–1564). In the first thirty years of his life he preserved his chisel some of the traditions of the 15th century, producing moderate and beautiful but vigorous works.
Michelangelo had hoped this would be by his tombThe unfinished sculpture has now been restored after 470 yearsby experts at Florence’s Opera del Duomo MuseumMichelangelo worked on ‘Bandini ...
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Importuno di Michelangelo: c. 1504 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Pietraforte Rothschild Bronzes [6] 1506–1508 Fitzwilliam Museum: Bronze Male torso I (in Italian) c. 1513: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 23 cm Male torso II (in Italian) c. 1513: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 22,5 cm Naked woman scale model (in Italian)
STORY: The work had been designated a French national treasure, which barred it from being exported from the country for 30 months. But the French government recently removed the designation ...