MILAN — Few know that legendary Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo spent his final days completing a marble Virgin and Christ sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà. A departure from his earlier works, ...

At the foot of a curving staircase in the little modernistic Villa Sanseverino stands the last privately owned Michelangelo in the world, the Pieta Rondanini.* Every month, dozens of visitors go out ...

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. (KOIN) — The Pieta is one of Michelangelo’s greatest masterpieces. The original marble version is in Vatican City but the rights to reproduce it, full size in bronze and precious ...

Statues of Michelangelo are always a problem. Their siting always causes much debate. For this reason, a workshop has been organised in Milan in order to re-think the architectural setting of the ...

To preserve Michelangelo’s final sculptural masterpiece, La Pietà Rondanini, the city of Milan turned to a diverse team to develop an isolated support structure for the statue that would limit the ...

Sculptor Barry X Ball reinvented Michelangelo's "Pieta Rondanini," using 3-D scans, stone-chiseling robots and thousands of hours of handwork. Go inside the artist's new high-tech workshop as he adds ...

One by one, the sculptures Michelangelo carved for his Renaissance patrons found their way into public galleries, until only a single work remained in private hands: the Pietà Rondanini, an unfinished ...

As part of a short-term scholarship by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen to the Deutsche Welle Akademie, I had the opportunity to spend two months in Germany, and I tried to make the most of my time by ...

Milan can’t compare with Rome and Florence artistically, but Italy’s second city hosts two noteworthy masterpieces: Michelangelo’s last pietà sculpture and Leonardo’s Last Supper. On this visit to ...

Msgr. Verdon said that the Vatican Pietà is the only one of the three to remain in the place it was intended for — above an altar in St. Peter’s Basilica. A close-up of the copy of Michelangelo's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “No one thinks how much blood it costs” is the subtitle of The Three Pietàs of Michelangelo, an intensely ...

New restoration work is helping art historians understand Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà, one of the Renaissance master’s great unfinished sculptures. A preliminary cleaning has already revealed ...