Description
The Pieta Rondanini is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculpted between 1552-1553 and subsequently reworked from about 1555 to 1564. It is kept in the Museo del Castello Sforzesco in Milan. It is the last work of the author who worked there until a few days before his death, Michelangelo began to prepare a sculpture depicting the Pieta for his funeral monument. The first attempt was disappointing for the master because the marble, imperfect, broke causing his fury. Then Michelangelo, in the second intervention, intervened on the figure of Mary transforming it into a new version of the body of Jesus. Of the previous conception only the legs remained. Maria, in the new version, was finally obtained from the left shoulder and chest of the primitive Christ.
