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Michelangelo's Rome Pietà, altarpiece or grave memorial?

Author
Wallace, William E.
Document type
Article (acte de congrès)
Language
English
Conference title
Verrocchio and late Quattrocento Italian sculpture
Author (monograph)
Bule, Steven (Editor, Collective Author); Darr, Alan Phipps (Editor, Collective Author); Superbi Gioffredi, Fiorella (Editor, Collective Author)
Source
Verrocchio and late Quattrocento Italian sculpture. 1992, p. 243-255, ill.
Publisher
Le Lettere, Firenze (ITA)
Publication country
Italy
Abstract (en)
Argues that the Pietà (Rome, Vatican, S. Peter's) was commissioned from Michelangelo by Cardinal de Bilhères de Lagraulas (1487) to adorn his tomb rather than an altar; proposes that it stood on or close to the ground in its original placement in S. Petronilla (includes a photomontage reconstruction); and examines symbolic meanings of the sculpture and its rocky base (Mary super petram, the image of the mother of Christ on the foundation stone of Christianity which is in turn Christ), and of its location near the grave of S. Peter, in a sepulchral rotunda recalling the Holy Sepulcher.
Subject (en)
Subject (fr)

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DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19930401-00365641

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