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)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture -- Italy
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Sculpture
• Italy
• 1400-1500
• Pietà
• Vaticano, S. Pietro||Roma (ITA)
• Vaticano, S. Petronilla||Roma (ITA)
• Commissions
• Symbolism
• Holy Sepulcher
• Rotundas
• Peter the Apostle, S.
• Mary, Virgin
• Christianity
• Reconstruction [hypothetical]
• Sepulchral monuments

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture -- Italie
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Sculpture
• Italie
• 1400-1500
• Pietà
• Vaticano, S. Pietro||Roma (ITA)
• Vaticano, S. Petronilla||Roma (ITA)
• Commande d'oeuvre d'art
• Symbolisme
• Saint-Sépulcre
• Rotonde
• Pierre, saint
• Vierge
• Christianisme
• Restitution intellectuelle
• Monument funéraire

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19930401-00365641

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