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The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists Apelles and Polykleitos. It was the only work he ever signed. Vasari also reports the anecdote that Michelangelo later regretted his outburst of pride and swore never to sign another work of his hands. [12] [13] Fifty years later, Vasari declared the following regarding the Pietà:
Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture is also unique in the fact that it is the only one of his works that he ever signed. Upon hearing that visitors thought it had been sculpted by Cristoforo Solari , a competitor, he carved his signature into Mary's sash as "MICHAELA[N]GELUS BONAROTUS FLORENTIN[US] FACIEBA[T]": "Michelangelo Buonarroti the ...
The Pietà is an oil on canvas painting, one of the last paintings by Titian, from 1575-1576.In its final, extended state it was left incomplete at his death, in 1576, to be completed by Palma Giovane.
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The key signature is written with only two flats, and A ♭ s have been written in as accidentals. The opening musical phrase ("Care luci") hangs on an arched melody that Handel also used in his opera Rodrigo, as well as in Messiah ("Comfort ye my people"). 3 Recitative 4 4: 8 Pietà, Clori, pietà! se quel che pietà sia dentro al tuo cor si ...
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The theme of the Pietà, so dear to the sculptor Michelangelo, is addressed in a highly emotional composition, as in the Crucifixion for Colonna. The dead Jesus is cradled between the grieving Mary's legs, who raises her arms to heaven as two angels also raise Christ's arms at right angles.