Michelangelo's Pietà

Summary

• This article is about the most famous Pietà by Michelangelo. For three related sculptures see the Florentine Pietà (or Deposition), the Rondanini Pietà and the Palestrina Pietà.

The Life of Michelangelo - only $28.23 Ascanio Condivi was a young pupil and assistant of Michelangelo s who gained the trust and confidence of the great artist. But, although Vasari knew Michelangelo well, the sculptor never confided in him to the source for the life of Michelangelo.. The significance of Condivi s text was recognized early on. His biography of Michelangelo to a large extent h based on the artist s own words, tells the story of his life, his relationship with his patrons, his objectives as an artist, and his accomplishments, forming the basis of a biography that has been central to the study of Michelangelo for four centuries. Within fifteen years of its publication in 1553, Vasari incorporated much of it to correct and revise his biography of Michelangelo in the second edition of his Lives of the Artists. »

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